Format:
Book
Author:
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
Title:
I never had it made : an autobiography of Jackie Robinson / Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett ; introductions by Cornel West and Hank Aaron.
Publisher, Date:
[Hopewell, N.J.] : Ecco Press, c1995.
Description:
xxiv, 279 p. [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Summary:
Autobiography of an African American who broke the color barrier in major league baseball and devoted his life to achieving justice.
Subjects:
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Other Author:
Duckett, Alfred.
Other Title:
I never had it made : Jackie Robinson, an autobiography
Autobiography of Jackie Robinson : I never had it made
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1972.
Coretta Scott King Award, author, 1973.
Contents:
Introduction / Cornel West -- Introduction / Hank Aaron -- Preface : Today / Jackie Robinson -- The noble experiment -- A dream deferred -- The nobel experiment -- Breaking the color barrier -- The major leagues -- "Just another guy" -- My own man -- The price of popularity -- The growing family -- The ninth inning -- After the ball game -- New horizons -- Campaigning for Nixon -- The Hall of Fame Award -- Conflict at the Apollo -- Crises at home -- On being black among the Republicans -- Differences with Malcolm X -- The Freedom Bank -- Hope and disillusionment in white politics -- The influence of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Jackie's prison -- Politics today -- " ... and he was free" -- Aftermath -- Epilogue.
ISBN:
0060555971
9780060555979
Other Number:
52329165
System Availability:
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Current Holds:
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Control Number:
381709
Call Number:
BIO Robinson
Course Reserves:
0
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