Jackie's bat

By Marybeth Lorbiecki

Subjects: Race relations, fiction, Baseball, Juvenile fiction, Baseball, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team), Race relations, Robinson, jackie, 1919-1972, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Baseball stories

Description: Joey, the batboy for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, learns a hard lesson about respect for people of different races after Jackie Robinson joins the team.