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Jackie Robinson
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William R. Sanford |
A look at the life of the first Afro-American to play major league baseball, a talented athlete also known as a fighter for equal rights. |
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When the Dodgers were bridegrooms
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Ronald G. Shafer |
"In 1883, urbane real estate investor Charles Byrne and hustling news editor George J. Taylor joined forces to create the club that would become the Brooklyn Dodgers. Nicknamed the "Bridegrooms" by s… |
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Campy
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Neil Lanctot |
Traces the life and career of the gifted athlete, tracing his achievements playing with the Negro Leagues and Brooklyn Dodgers before the accident that rendered him a quadriplegic and pioneer in reha… |
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Wait Till Next Year
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, *Wait Till Next Year* re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger… |
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Miracle ball
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Brian Biegel |
The author describes his quest to solve the mystery of a legendary, long-missing, pennant-winning home run baseball, hit by Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson in a 1951 playoff series against the Bro… |
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A Big Day for Baseball (Magic Tree House (R))
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Mary Pope Osborne,AG Ford |
Jack and Annie aren't great baseball players...yet! Then Morgan the librarian gives them magical baseball caps that will make them experts. They just need to wear the caps to a special ballgame in Br… |
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Don Larsen's miraculous world series game and the men who made it happen
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Lew Paper |
On October 8, 1956, New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen took the mound for Game 5 of the World Series against the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. In an improbable performance that the New York Times called t… |
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