Title: Play ball, Jackie!
Description: On April 15, 1947, Matt Romano and his father watch the Brooklyn Dodgers season-opener, during which Jackie Robinson, a twenty-eight-year-old rookie, breaks the "color line" that had kept black men out of Major League baseball. Includes facts about Jackie Robinson's life and career.
Subjects: Race relations, Juvenile fiction, Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team), Fiction, Baseball, African American baseball players, African Americans, Baseball stories, Children's fiction, Robinson, jackie, 1919-1972, fiction, Baseball, fiction, Race relations, fiction, African americans, fiction
People: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)