This brief 11 1/4" x 8 3/4" account of segregation, racism, humiliation and personal courage takes place at a time in the U.S.A. "when automobiles were black and looked like tanks and the laundry was white and hung on clotheslines to dry ... " and features the former Negro Leagues, Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey, Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson and shortstop Pee Wee Reese. Archival photographs and full-color illustrations tell as much about the 1947 baseball season for Jackie Robinson, the first African-American Major League player, as does the short text. (Ages 5-10)

This is the moving story of how Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a Major League baseball team when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, and how on a fateful day in Cincinnati, Pee Wee Reese took a stand and declared Jackie his teammate. Illustrated with a blend of historic photographs and eloquent watercolors by Paul Bacon.