The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to tell her husband's story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers. We are brought closer than we have ever been to...
No one was more keenly aware of the demands of baseball in this respect than Robinson himself. “I’ll be very glad when this baseball is over and we settle down as a family,” he had written to Rachel five years before. “I would rather not be away so much.” The children obviously needed him. “When ...