Jackie Robinson (1) (1919–1972)
Autor(a) de I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
Para outros autores com o nome Jackie Robinson, ver a página de desambiguação.
About the Author
Image credit: Photo by Maurice Terrell: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Look Magazine Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-119881)
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Obras por Jackie Robinson
Associated Works
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (2006) — Contribuidor — 1,090 exemplares
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Contribuidor — 102 exemplares
Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience (2018) — Narrador, algumas edições — 49 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Robinson, Jackie
- Nome legal
- Robinson, Jack Roosevelt
- Data de nascimento
- 1919-01-31
- Data de falecimento
- 1972-10-24
- Localização do túmulo
- Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Cairo, Georgia, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Stamford, Connecticut, USA
- Locais de residência
- Pasadena, California, USA
- Educação
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Ocupações
- baseball player
soldier
sports analyst
business executive
spokesperson
activist (mostrar todos 8)
athletic director
basketball coach - Organizações
- Major League Baseball
Brooklyn Dodgers
Negro Leagues Baseball
United States Army
761st Tank Battalion
NAACP (mostrar todos 8)
Kansas City Monarchs
Montreal Royals - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Congressional Gold Medal (2003)
California Hall of Fame (2007)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1984)
Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players (#44)
Baseball Hall of Fame (Player|1962)
Major League Baseball All-Century Team (2B) (mostrar todos 16)
Jackie Robinson Award named in his honor (NL and AL ROY Awards)
Rookie of the Year (MLB|1947)
Retired Jersey (Major League Baseball)
Spingarn Medal (1956)
California Hall of Fame (2007)
Jackie Robinson Stadium (UCLA) named in his honor (UCLA)
Negro League All-Star (1945)
MLB All-Star (x6)
World Series champion (1955)
Most Valuable Player (NL|1949)
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 468
- Popularidade
- #52,559
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 9
- ISBN
- 39
His post-baseball career - including experiences with politics, Dr. King, the NAACP, Kennedy and Nixon, and his son's service in Vietnam also are topics of great interest. But it's the time he spent in the game that is most enthralling, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
I purchased the Audiobook, so I enjoyed the extra treat of having the book read to me by the legendary Ossie Davis, a man whom I greatly admire as well.
I recommend this to all baseball fans, but particularly to everyone who thinks you know what Jackie faced coming up into the Majors as an African-American. However hard you thought it was, it was harder. But he never gave up. God bless Jackie Robinson.… (mais)