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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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On June 12, 1970, Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In over 137 years of organized professional baseball, it's the only no-hitter tossed while the pitcher was high on LSD. Dock was often embroiled in controversy on and off the field. Coming up in the '60s, while professional baseball hadn't fully embraced racial equality, he was an outspoken leader who lived the expression "black is beautiful"!
Chronicles the career of 1970s...
3) Double play
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English
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Joseph Burke is hired as bodyguard to a spoiled twenty-five year-old woman. This story intertwines with the story of baseball player, Jackie Robinson.
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39 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Presents an illustrated biography of the man who broke baseball's color barrier and changed the way Americans viewed equality in sports.
"Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. He could run, leap, and throw better than any other kid around. But he lived at a time when the rules weren't fair to African Americans: Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie...
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xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"The ... true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron -- a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston -- and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over"--
In 2007, at the age of twelve, Perron bought a set of Topps baseball cards featuring several players from the...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family members and rarely-seen photographs and film footage.
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