Annotated

Bibliography

Primary Sources
www.archives.gov
This website gave me useful information about Jackies life.
www.jackierobinson.com
This website gave me news articles and information about
his charity.
www.biography.com
This website gave me a lot of information about his
childhood.
www.baseball-reference.com
This website gave me his statistics and a timeline of his
career.
www.nytimes.com
This article showed me what they thought about Jackie
during his time.
www.oldmagazinearticles.com
This article was about his college career at UCLA.
www.youtube.com
I watched a documentary on Jackie Robinson on this website.
www.studentnewsdaily.com
I watched a Baseball Hall of Fame tribute to Jackie Robinson
Writings of Jackie Robinson (journal)
Jackie wrote in a journal when he was in war and that gave
me useful information.

www.history.com
This website gave me information about Jim Crow law and
black cruelty at this time.

Secondary
Sources
Herman, Gail. Who was Jackie Robinson?. New York: Grosset
& Dunlap, 2010.
This book gave me information about his life and his legacy.
Driscoll, Laura. Negro Leagues: All-Black Baseball. New York:
Grosset & Dunlap, 2002.
This book gave me information about the Negro Leagues.
Eig, Jonathan. Opening Day: The story of Jackie Robinsons
First Season. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
This book gave me information on Jackie Robinsons first
season.
OConnor, Jim. Shadow Ball. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
This book gave me information about the Brooklyn team.
Prince, April Jones. Jackie Robinson: He Led the Way. New
York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1997.
I learned that Jackie was fearless and encouraged other
black players to play in the Major Leagues.
Rampersad, Arnold. Jackie Robinson: A Biography. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
I learned many things about Jackie in this biography.

Robinson, Sharon. Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson

Changed America. New York: Scholastic, 2004.
This book gave me information about black history and how
Jackie changed America and how baseball is today.

Tygiel, Jules. Baseballs Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson

and his Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
This book gave me information about the controversy of
Branch Rickey signing Jackie to his team.
Stout, Glenn. Jackie Robinson: Legends in Sports. New York:
Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 1996.
This book gave me useful information about Jackies sports
career.
Spatz, Lyle. The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and
America: The Brooklyn Dodgers. Nebraska: University of
Nebraska Press, 2012.
This book gave me information about the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Glasser, Ira. Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson: Precursors
to the Civil Rights Movement. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse
University Press, 1997.
This book gave me information about the Civil Rights
Movement.
Wiggins, David K. Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White
America. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press,
1997.
I learned about other black athletes in America at the time of
Jackie Robinson in this book.
Abramson, Elliot M. Jackie Robinson: My Journey of
Appreciation. New York: Nine, Vol. 13 No. 1, Fall 2004.
I learned that Jackie had a lot of respect for the game of
baseball.

Prince, Carl E. Brooklyns Dodgers: The Bums, The Borough,

and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
I learned about the greats and the bums of baseball in this
book.
Rubinstein, William D. Jackie Robinson and the Integration of
Major League Baseball. History Today, Vol. 53, No. 9,
September 2003.
This book is about the controversy of Jackie and the other
blacks playing with white people.
Tygiel, Jules. Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson,
Race, and Baseball History. Nebraska: University of Nebraska
Press, 2005.
This book taught me a lot about the time of Jackie Robinson.
Kenny, Jack. Jackie Robinson: Rebel with a Cause. The New
American, Vol. 29, No. 9, May 6, 2013.
This book is about Jackies determination to make things
equal and right.
Miller, Patrick B. Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and
Race Relations in Twentieth-Century America. Routledge,
2004.
This book gave me information about black athletes in
America.
Cohen, Barbra. Thank You, Jackie Robinson. New York:
HarperCollins, 1997.
I thought about how the world would be without Jackie
Robinson and what he did after I read this book.
Scholastic. 42: The True Story of Jackie Robinson. New York:
Scholastic, 2013.
This book is great because it gave me the best information
about Jackie Robinson.