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Play ball, Jackie!

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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.

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Stephen Krensky

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Joe Morse

author

Fiction JUVENILE FICTION children's fiction Race relations--fiction Race relations African Americans African Americans -- Fiction Baseball Baseball, fiction Baseball stories Robinson, jackie, 1919-1972, fiction Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) African American baseball players

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