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Arnold Rampersads biography of one of baseballs all-time greats, Jackie Robinson, is written in the professors stoic and distant manner. Full of facts, free of fiction, judgment, or opinion, its a straightforward book that tells it like it was.
Jackie Robinson: A Biography
Arnold Rampersad
Hardcover, 512 pages
ISBN 0679444955
Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher
1997
Arnold Rampersads biography of one of baseballs all-time greats, Jackie Robinson, is written in the professors stoic and distant manner. Full of facts, free of fiction, judgment, or opinion, its a straightforward book that tells it like it was.
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