Play ball, Jackie! /

Krensky, Stephen.

Play ball, Jackie! / Stephen Krensky ; illustrations by Joe Morse. - Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, c2011. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Ages 7-10.

0822590301 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 9780822590309 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

2010027270


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


Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)--Juvenile fiction.


African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
Baseball--Fiction.


Picture books.

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