Learn the Inspiring Story of the Baseball Legend, Jackie Robinson! Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device! One of many riveting reads in the Baseball Biography Books series by Clayton Geoffreys. In Jackie Robinson: The Inspiring Story of One of Baseball's Greatest Legends , you will learn the story of the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era, Jackie Robinson. Robinson was one of the most influential players to ever play baseball. Over the span of his ten-year professional career, he won the Rookie of the Year Award, received six All-Star nominations, and was the first African American player to win the National League's Most Valuable Player Award. Robinson had an instrumental role in the end of racial segregation for professional baseball and ushered in a new chapter for the sport, as well as for the United States as a key cultural figure of the Civil Rights Movement. Pick up this unauthorized biography today to learn the inspiring story behind baseball superstar and icon, Jackie Robinson! This is the perfect baseball chapter book for sports fans of all ages. This baseball book explores what makes Jackie Robinson great, and what we can learn from his hard work. Here is a preview of what is inside this Jackie Robinson biography book: Childhood and Early Life - School Days (High School, Junior College, and College Career) - Military Service - Pre-MLB Career - MLB Career: Breaking the Color Barrier, Influx of Black Players, MVP Season - Outside Interests, Final All-Star Season, World Series Championship, Retirement - Robinson's Fight for Civil Rights - Robinson's Family Life and Death - Impact and Legacy An excerpt from this Jackie Robinson biography: “Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.” – Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States. What Obama said in that statement carries a huge weight in the world of professional sports today. We are now seeing different races of people who have come from all sorts of countries, regardless of their color and their religion, performing well in the grandest stage, as America has allowed them to flourish and hone their talents to become the best they could ever be. Sports has become an area where race no longer matters and where we see people of any color or creed coming out on top to fight against the odds. Of course, things were not always that way. In the past, not a lot of people of color were able to succeed in sports because they did not have the same opportunities as the Caucasian athletes of yesteryear. In basketball, it took until the 1950 season for Earl Lloyd to become the first African American player to be drafted into the NBA. Meanwhile, NBA legend Bill Russell spent his entire career fighting for civil rights for the African American people. In the NFL, Kenny Washington became the first African American player to sign with a professional football team in the modern era of the league but was signed only when the Los Angeles Rams went under fire amidst the league’s ban against interracial players. Did you enjoy this excerpt? If so, be sure to pick up a copy of this baseball biography book on Jackie Robinson today! This is just one of many baseball biographies by Clayton Geoffreys. Also, be sure to check out Clayton's biography on Babe Ruth or Aaron Judge after you finish this one.