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Name: Young Jackie Robinson
Author: Edward Farrell

📘 Young Jackie Robinson by Edward Farrell

A biography of the first black player in modern American major league baseball, emphasizing the prejudice he had to overcome by sheer courage.

First publish date: 1991

Authors: Edward Farrell

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