Peter Golenbock’s picture book tells how Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, and how, on a hostile day in Cincinnati, his Louisville-born teammate Pee Wee Reese stood beside him at second base and publicly claimed him as a friend.
Illustrated with a blend of historic photographs and Paul Bacon’s watercolors, it’s a simple, moving account of courage and friendship that has become a staple of civil rights lessons in classrooms nationwide.
Published 1992
32 pages
$7.19