The Jackie Robinson Story
Arthur Mann
Hardcover
(Grosset & Dunlap, March 15, 1963)
An early biography of the man who broke the color barrier to major league baseball. Jackie Robinson's baseball statistics. Illus with vintage photographs from his UCLA days in football, track and basketball and in his later Dodger's uniform. He was the first athlete to letter in all three sports plus baseball in 1941. This biography was published in the year after his retirement, Jackie is still Remembered and Honored to this day...The author, Arthur Mann, co-authored the Jackie Robinson movie and was a consultant to Dodger GM Branch Rickey.