Books: Jackie Robinson in Depth. Published Mar 29, 2007 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, ... Jackie Robinson. Robinson has already been the subject of dozens of biographies, ...

Book excerpt: The day Jackie Robinson came home to Dodger Stadium. Jackie Robinson is shown at his Stamford, Conn., house on June 30, 1971. (Associated Press) By Kostya Kennedy Special to the Times .

On the Shelf. True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson. By Kostya Kennedy St. Martin’s: 288 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org ...

But the nameplate sign on his office door after he retired from baseball was Jack Robinson. So calling Jackie “Jack” in the book pulls him out of 1947 and off the baseball diamond and allows ...

Sharon Robinson walked the red carpet giving interviews to promote the movie 42 -- about her late father, Jackie Robinson -- before a screening at the Angelika Film Center during the 2013 Dallas ...

Jackie Robinson and his wife, Rachel, look at photos of the ballplayer in action in New York in 1949. ... The book ends in 1972, with Robinson as a lion in winter, slowly fading, ...

Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball great Jackie Robinson, wants to talk about racial justice. Robinson turned 13 just a day after George Wallace made his famous proclamation for segregation ...

Robinson died in 1972 at 53, but his widow, Rachel Robinson, 97, also keeps Jackie’s story alive. In 1997, when the Twins retired No. 42, Rabinovitz finally got to meet her. “You’re Ron ...

Robinson died in 1972 at 53, but his widow, Rachel Robinson, 97, also keeps Jackie's story alive. In 1997, when the Twins retired No. 42, Rabinovitz finally got to meet her. "You're Ron Rabinovitz?

If Jackie Robinson was still living, he would celebrate his 100th birthday later this week. ... As Chris Lamb and his co-author Michael G. Long show in their book, “Jackie Robinson: ...

Robinson said she was inspired to write the book with Scholastic due to a “combination of factors.” “I turned 13 in 1963,” she said. “That made it a landmark year, but it was also a ...