New book ‘Jackie Robinson in Quotes’ details ‘The Remarkable Life of Baseball’s Most Significant Player’
Brooklyn BookBeat
Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has noted recently, while doing the interview circuit to promote his new documentary on Jackie Robinson, “When Jackie broke the color barrier in baseball, Martin Luther King was still a junior in college and Rosa Parks was 10 years away from taking a seat in the front of the bus … in fact, a few years before making his mark in baseball, Jackie himself had gotten arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus. People forget that he was fighting for civil rights long before there was a Civil Rights Movement.”
Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Montreal Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ International League farm team, on April 18, 1946, author Danny Peary brings the baseball pioneer’s story to life with “Jackie Robinson in Quotes: The Remarkable Life of Baseball’s Most Significant Player” (Page Street Publishing Co.; April 19, 2016).
Peary tells the story of the man who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier through quotes from and about him. The book features more than 400 pages of quotes by Jackie Robinson himself, his widow Rachel Robinson and family members, friends, teammates and coaches, as well as leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.