ROBINSON, Jackie; Alfred Duckett.
Breakthrough to the Big League: The Story of Jackie Robinson.
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers , 1965.
$7,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-151428
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First Edition of Breakthrough to the Big League; Warmly Inscribed by Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson in the Year of Publication
First edition of this autobiography detailing Robinson's journey as the first Black player in Major League Baseball. Octavo, original pictorial boards, frontispiece, illustrated with 21 black and white photographs. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Jackie Robinson in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "4-18-65 To Robert Weiss with best wishes. Thanks for sending the poem. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I hope you enjoy 'Breakthrough to the Big League' Jackie Robinson." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Written with Alfred Duckett. Jacket design by Charles Geer. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from JSA. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
"Probably no other athlete has had a greater sociological impact on American sport than did Robinson. His success on the baseball field opened the door to black baseball players and thereby transformed the game. He also helped to facilitate the acceptance of black athletes in other professional sports, particularly basketball and football. His influence spread beyond the realm of sport, as he emerged in the late 1940s and 1950s as an important national symbol of the virtue of racial integration in all aspects of American life” (ANB).
Breakthrough to the Big League: The Story of Jackie Robinson.
$7,800.00
In Stock
