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Learn the Inspiring Story of the Baseball Legend, Jackie Robinson!
One of many riveting listens in the Baseball Biography Books series by Clayton Geoffreys.
In Jackie Robinson: The Inspiring Story of One of Baseball's Greatest Legends, you will learn the story of the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era, Jackie Robinson. Robinson was one of the most influential players to ever play baseball. Over the span of his 10-year professional career, he won the Rookie of the Year Award, received six All-Star nominations, and was the first African American player to win the National League's Most Valuable Player Award.
Robinson had an instrumental role in the end of racial segregation for professional baseball and ushered in a new chapter for the sport, as well as for the United States as a key cultural figure of the Civil Rights Movement.
Pick up this unauthorized biography today to learn the inspiring story behind baseball superstar and icon, Jackie Robinson! This is the perfect baseball chapter book for sports fans of all ages.
Here is a preview of what is inside this Jackie Robinson biography book:
- Childhood and Early Life
- School Days (High School, Junior College, and College Career)
- Military Service
- Pre-MLB Career
- MLB Career: Breaking the Color Barrier, Influx of Black Players, MVP Season
- Outside Interests, Final All-Star Season, World Series Championship, Retirement
- Robinson's Fight for Civil Rights
- Robinson's Family Life and Death
- Impact and Legacy
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 80
Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting for. With an encyclopedic knowledge of professional sports, and shrewd cultural criticism, John Feinstein uncovers not just why, but how, pro sports continue to perpetuate racial inequality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Feinstein triumph
- De Glenn Canning en 12-06-21
De: John Feinstein, y otros
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Forty Million Dollar Slaves
- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
- De: William C. Rhoden
- Narrado por: William C. Rhoden
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 357
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 303
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, Black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built. Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of Black athletes in the United States.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book and Narrator Review
- De Leonor en 12-26-17
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Got Your Number
- The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own
- De: Mike Greenberg, Paul Hembekides
- Narrado por: Mike Greenberg
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41
ESPN personality ( Get Up and #Greeny) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partners with mega-producer Hembo to settle once and for all which legends flat-out own which numbers. In short essays certain to provoke debate between and amongst all generations, Greeny uses his lifetime of sports knowledge to spin yarns of the legends among the legends and tell you why some have claimed their spot in the top 100 of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every Sports fan must listen to this book
- De Avraham Ashkenazi en 02-13-24
De: Mike Greenberg, y otros
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NFL Century
- The One-Hundred-Year Rise of America's Greatest Sports League
- De: Joe Horrigan
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
The NFL has come a long way from its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920. In the 100 years since that fateful day, football has become America’s most popular and lucrative professional sport. The former scrappy upstart league that struggled to stay afloat has survived a host of challenges to produce American icons like Vince Lombardi, Joe Montana, and Tom Brady. It is an extraordinary and entertaining history that could be told only by Joe Horrigan, former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and perhaps the greatest living historian of the NFL.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Details of the formation and growth of the NFL
- De Donald J. Bentley en 03-17-24
De: Joe Horrigan
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America's Quarterback
- Bart Starr and the Rise of the National Football League
- De: Keith Dunnavant
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30
No one can touch Bart Starr's record setting 5 NFL Championships including 3 straight. America's Quarterback tells the story of the man who helped create the legend of Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers. This biography traces Starr’s life from childhood in Alabama to stardom in Green Bay and beyond. Not a simple sports story, Dunnavant traces the story of one man reaching for the American dream while professional football emerged from the shadows to capture the nation’s imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome
- De Anthony nyman en 03-30-15
De: Keith Dunnavant
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Scribe
- My Life in Sports
- De: Bob Ryan
- Narrado por: Bob Ryan
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the "quintessential American sportswriter". For the past 25 years, he has also been a regular on various ESPN shows, especially The Sports Reporters, spreading his knowledge and enthusiasm for sports of all kinds.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No my idea of a memoir
- De Michael Friedman en 12-19-14
De: Bob Ryan
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Homegrown
- How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up
- De: Alex Speier
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
The 2018 season was a coronation for the Boston Red Sox. The best team in Major League Baseball - indeed, one of the best teams ever - the Sox won 108 regular season games and then romped through the postseason, going 11-3 against the three next-strongest teams baseball had to offer. As Alex Speier reveals, the Sox’ success wasn’t a fluke - nor was it guaranteed. It was the result of careful, patient planning and shrewd decision-making that allowed Boston to develop a golden generation of prospects - and then build upon that talented core to assemble a juggernaut.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read if you like the Red Sox or baseball ops
- De Amazon Customer en 01-11-20
De: Alex Speier
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Baseball
- A History of America's Game
- De: Benjamin G. Rader
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
A succinct history of baseball, newly revised and updated. In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope, covering record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters. The book is published by The University of Illinois Press.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good book!
- De Judy Ellis en 04-15-18
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What's My Name, Fool?
- Sports and Resistance in the United States
- De: Dave Zirin
- Narrado por: Aaron Abano
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Here Edgeofsports.com sportswriter Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst, as well as the most creative and exciting, features of American society. Zirin explores how Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash-time show exposed more than a breast, why the labor movement has everything to learn from sports unions, and why a new generation of athletes is no longer content to "play one game at a time" and is starting to get political.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting read
- De sosnows8 en 08-16-20
De: Dave Zirin
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The Year of the Pitcher
- Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age
- De: Sridhar Pappu
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series. In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire generation's hope for integration at a heated moment in American history. Denny McLain, his adversary, was a crass self-promoter.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Misleading Title
- De Paul en 01-25-19
De: Sridhar Pappu
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The League
- How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
- De: John Eisenberg
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 278
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 253
The National Football League's current dominance has obscured how professional football got its start. In The League, John Eisenberg reveals that Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell took an immense risk by investing in the professional game. At that time, the sport barely registered on the national scene. The five owners succeeded only because at critical junctures in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, each sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the League.
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5 out of 5 stars
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what a great book. loved it completely.
- De Daniel Mosca en 11-08-18
De: John Eisenberg
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The Team That Changed Baseball
- Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates
- De: Bruce Markusen
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
In The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates, veteran baseball writer Bruce Markusen tells the story of one of the most likable and significant teams in the history of professional sports. In addition to the fact that they fielded the first all-minority lineup in major league history, the 1971 Pirates are noteworthy for the team's inspiring individual performances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The first All Black and Brown Baseball Line-up.
- De Matthew Tsien en 05-22-16
De: Bruce Markusen
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Fall from Grace
- The Truth and Tragedy of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
- De: Tim Hornbaker
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 10 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Considered by Ty Cobb as the "finest natural hitter in the history of the game," "Shoeless Joe" Jackson is ranked with the greatest players to ever step onto a baseball diamond. With a career .356 batting average - which is still ranked third all-time - the man from Pickens County, South Carolina, was on his way to becoming one of the greatest players in the sport's history. That is until the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, which shook baseball to its core.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining and Educational
- De Colorfinger en 06-14-19
De: Tim Hornbaker
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The Breaks of the Game
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 17 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 265
A New York Times best seller, David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions. The tactile authenticity of Halberstam's knowledge of the basketball world is unrivaled. Yet he is writing here about far more than just basketball. This is a story about a place in our society where power, money, and talent collide and sometimes corrupt, a place where both national obsessions and naked greed are exposed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book is a must read for all NBA junkies.
- De Kyle en 06-13-18
De: David Halberstam
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Boys Among Men
- How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution
- De: Jonathan Abrams
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college - as young basketball prodigies were expected to do - but instead would enter the 1995 NBA draft directly from high school, he blazed a trail for a generation of teenage basketball players to head straight for the pros. That trend would continue until the NBA instituted an age limit in 2005, requiring all players to attend college or another developmental program for at least one year.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bad pronunciation
- De K. Spearman en 07-03-16
De: Jonathan Abrams
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You Herd Me!
- I'll Say It If Nobody Else Will
- De: Colin Cowherd
- Narrado por: Colin Cowherd
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 459
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 457
In this age of billion dollar athletic marketing campaigns, “feel good” philosophy with no connection to reality, and a Sports Media echo chamber that’s all too eager swallow whatever idiotic notion happens to be in vogue at the moment, it’s tough to find people who aren’t afraid to say what they’re really thinking.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, Repeats majority of themes from radio
- De Troy en 01-20-14
De: Colin Cowherd
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The Last Innocents
- The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
- De: Michael Leahy
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s America: white and black, Jewish and Christian, wealthy and working class, pro-Vietnam and anti-war, golden boy and seasoned veteran. The Last Innocents is a thoughtful, technicolor portrait of these seven players - friends, mentors, confidants, rivals, and allies - and their storied team that offers an intriguing look at a sport and a nation in transition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reliving my youth
- De PJ en 05-24-17
De: Michael Leahy
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The Missing Ring
- How Bear Bryant and the 1966 Alabama Crimson Tide Were Denied College Football's Most Elusive Prize
- De: Keith Dunnavant
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 31
Very few institutions in American sports can match the enduring excellence of the University of Alabama football program. Across a wide swath of the last century, the tradition-rich Crimson Tide has claimed twelve national championships, captured 25 conference titles, finished 34 times among the country's top ten, and played in 53 bowl games.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De John Rogers en 03-29-18
De: Keith Dunnavant