Dingle, Derek T.

First in the field : baseball hero Jackie Robinson / Derek T. Dingle. - 1st ed. - New York : Hyperion Book for Children, c1998. - 48 p.: ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 48).

A biography which discusses the discrimination faced by Jackie Robinson, the baseball legend who became the first African American to play Major League baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers

0786803487 (tr) 0786822899 (lib)

97041333 /AC


Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 --Juvenile literature.
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.


Baseball players--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
Afro-American baseball players--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Discrimination in sports--History--Juvenile literature.--United States--20th century
Afro-American baseball players.
Baseball players.
Afro-Americans--Biography.

GV865.R6 / D56 1998

796.357/092 B