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Jackie Robinson

Selected Writings By Robinson:

Baseball Has Done It, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1964.

(With Alfred Duckett) Breakthrough to the Big League: The Story of Jackie Robinson, E.M. Hale, 1968.

Jackie Robinson's Little League Baseball Book, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.

1939	Named Southern California Junior College Most Valuable Baseball Player
1946	Named Most Valuable Player of the International League while playing for the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn Dodgers-affiliated farm team
1947	Integrates major league baseball by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers; led league with 29 stolen bases; named Rookie of the Year
1949	Leads league with highest batting average (.342) and most stolen bases (37)
1949	Named National League Most Valuable Player
1949-54	Selected for All-Star team
1952	Leads league with an on-base percentage of .440
1962	Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 23

(As told to Alfred Duckett) I Never Had It Made, Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1972.