Best Audiobooks for Road Trip 42 is Not Just a Number

1. 42 is Not Just a Number Audiobook
Best Audiobooks for Road Trip 42 is Not Just a Number
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2. 42 is Not Just a Number
Baseball, basketball, football, tennis, track and field — no matter the game or competition, Jackie Robinson hit it out
of the park. His exceptional talents should have easily landed him a career in pro sports. But in the United States in
the 1930s and ’40s, opportunities like those were closed to athletes like Jackie: his skin was the wrong color.
Jackie settled for playing baseball in the Negro Leagues but chafed at being unable to prove himself in the majors.
Then in 1946, Branch Rickey, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, decided that he was going to break segregation in
the Major Leagues and recruited Jackie. Jackie accepted the offer, knowing that it would be rough going. Again and
again, he exhibited courage, restraint, and phenomenal talent, despite being the target of cruel and sometimes
violent hatred.
In this compelling biography, award­winning author Doreen Rappaport chronicles the extraordinary courage and
dignity of Jackie Robinson, who not only broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball but also changed white
Americans’ perceptions of black Americans. His impact reached beyond the world of sports: he won over the hearts
of all Americans and became an American hero.

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