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Doris Kearns Goodwin crafts this remarkable memoir. Set in the 1950s, the most important things to Goodwin are her family and baseball. However, Goodwin's childhood takes a dramatic turn when her mother dies and the Dodgers leave Brooklyn. Suzanne Toren's superior narration takes listeners inside Goodwin's unique childhood.
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A bestselling author remembers the man who integrated baseball. The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever.
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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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1 DVD video (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African-American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
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Magic tree house volume 29
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75 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
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