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    Jackie Robinson
    Jackie Robinson
    Jackie Robinson
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    Jackie Robinson

    By Herb Dunn and Meryl Henderson

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    THE CHILDHOODS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS SERIES
    One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.
    ABIGAIL ADAMS
    SUSAN B. ANTHONY
    NEIL ARMSTRONG
    CRISPUS ATTUCKS
    CLARA BARTON
    ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
    DANIEL BOONE
    BUFFALO BILL
    WILL CLARK
    ROBERTO CLEMENTE
    DAVY CROCKETT
    WALT DISNEY
    THOMAS A. EDISON
    ALBERT EINSTEIN
    HENRY FORD
    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
    LOU GEHRIG
    HARRY HOUDINI
    LANGSTON HUGHES
    TOM JEFFERSON
    HELEN KELLER
    JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
    MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
    ROBERT E.LEE
    MERTWETHER LEWIS
    ABRAHAM LINCOLN
    MARY TODD LINCOLN
    THURGOOD MARSHALL
    JOHN MUIR
    ANNIE OAKLEY
    MOLLY PITCHER
    POCAHONTAS
    PAUL REVERE
    KNUTE ROCKNE
    ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
    TEDDY ROOSEVELT
    BETSY ROSS
    BABE RUTH
    SACAGAWEA
    SITTING BULL
    JIM THORPE
    MARK TWAIN
    GEORGE WASHINGTON
    MARTHA WASHINGTON
    WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateAug 12, 2014
    ISBN9781481413831
    Jackie Robinson
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    Herb Dunn

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      This was a great biography that told the story of Jackie Robinson and how he got to whom he is today. It shares the trials that he went through and it told how hard it was for him to achieve his dream.

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    Jackie Robinson - Herb Dunn

    JACKIE ROBINSON

    Name: Jackie Robinson

    Born: January 31, 1919

    Died: October 24, 1972

    Position: Baseball Player/Trailblazer

    Career Highlights:

    • First African-American to play Major League Baseball

    • Rookie of the Year in 1947

    • National League MVP in 1949

    • World Series Champ in 1955

    Interesting Facts:

    • He played four sports in college: football, basketball, track, and baseball.

    • His brother Matthew won a silver medal in the 200-meter dash—losing to Jesse Owens—at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

    star  CONTENTS  star

    Illustrations

    Fighting Back

    A New Life

    Doing Good Brings Good

    The Pepper Street Gang

    All the Kids I Beat

    Trouble on Pepper Street

    A Rising Star

    The World Stage

    A Great Day

    I’m an Athlete

    An Announcement

    The Army

    Someone Is Watching

    Something Wonderful

    The Barrier Comes Down

    Everything Is Complete

    The Impact of Jackie Robinson

    A Jackie Robinson Chronology

    Acknowledgments

    About Herb Dunn

    star  ILLUSTRATIONS  star

    Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers

    Jackie pretended his broom was a baseball bat.

    Thirteen of us got on the train!

    He saw a huge swimming pool.

    Jackie wound up and threw.

    A local politician handed Jackie a certificate and a ten-dollar bill.

    Hey, you kids! Get out of there! Now!

    The Robinson family huddled around the radio.

    I have to work tonight.

    At UCLA , Jackie became a star.

    Get to the back of the bus!

    Jackie glanced around the office.

    Jackie led the league in stolen bases.

    FIGHTING BACK

    SWEEP . . . SWEEP . . . sweep . . .

    Eight-year-old Jackie Robinson brushed the big broom across the sidewalk in front of his little house on Pepper Street in Pasadena, California. All five of the Robinson children had a job they had to do every day. Jackie’s job was to keep the sidewalk spotless.

    It wasn’t a hard job. In fact, Jackie was having fun. He pretended that his broom was a hockey stick, and he fired a slap shot into an imaginary net. Whack! The dirt flew into the street. Then he pretended his broom was a golf club, and he drove a tee shot far down an imaginary fairway. Wham!

    It was October 1927. Jackie had heard about a famous baseball player named Babe Ruth who hit an amazing sixty home runs that season. Nobody had ever done that before. Jackie pretended his broom was a baseball bat, and he cracked a home run over an imaginary centerfield fence. Smash! The dirt went flying off the sidewalk.

    It was a joyful time. Jackie was lost in his thoughts and fantasies, imagining that he was a famous athlete.

    Suddenly, a girl about Jackie’s age came out of her house down the street. She saw Jackie. Her face immediately twisted up into a scowl and she spat out just one word. Nigger!

    With that one word, Jackie’s mood changed instantly. The happiness he had been feeling washed away from him. It was replaced by anger, a deep anger that began to well up inside him.

    Jackie had heard the word before, but nobody had ever said it to him. He knew it was a bad word. It was a word that some white people would use against people who looked like Jackie—people who had dark skin.

    That girl doesn’t even know me, Jackie thought to himself as he stared at her. We never talked. Why is she calling me names? How can she possibly dislike me so much?

    Jackie was too young to understand how people of different races and ethnic groups sometimes don’t get along together. It didn’t make sense to him. People were just people. Why should somebody’s skin color have anything to do with the kind of person he or she was? But the girl had made him very mad, and he wanted to make her mad right back.

    He remembered something his older brother Frank once told him. Frank said that back in Georgia, where the Robinsons used to live, the worst thing you could call a white person was cracker.

    Cracker! Jackie yelled at the girl. She ran back into her house and slammed the door.

    Jackie went back to his sidewalk sweeping and forgot about the girl. He pretended that his broom was a tennis racquet, and he smacked a backhand across an imaginary court. Slam!

    At that moment a rock whizzed past Jackie’s head. It smacked into the tree behind him with a thud. Jackie stiffened. He spun around to see where the rock might have come from. A man was standing in front of the girl’s house. He was staring at Jackie. It must be her father, Jackie thought.

    Hey, you! the man yelled. Are you bothering my daughter?

    Jackie didn’t answer. He knew that a black person who talked disrespectfully to a white person could be hurt—or even worse. He just looked at the man, trying to decide what to do next.

    "I’m talking to you, boy!" the man hollered, picking up another rock and heaving it toward Jackie. The rock skittered across the sidewalk, bounced off the step, and landed near Jackie’s feet.

    Jackie felt anger rising up within him again. I wasn’t bothering that girl, he thought. She was bothering me.

    He thought about his options. He could ignore the man and continue his sweeping. He could shout back at the man. He could run inside and tell his mother what had happened.

    The man bent down to pick up another rock.

    Jackie stopped wondering what he should do. Furious, he quickly picked up the rock on the sidewalk in front of him. Planting his left foot the way he’d seen baseball players do it, Jackie shifted his weight back on his other foot. Smoothly, he moved his body forward, bringing the rock over his head and whipping it as hard as he could at the man.

    The rock hurtled through the air directly at the man’s head. The man dove out of the way.

    The rock just missed him. Jackie picked up another rock, planted his foot steadily, and hurled it at the man as he was getting up. The rock struck the man on the leg.

    Jackie picked up another rock. The man dashed up the steps to his house. Jackie threw the rock just as the

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