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In 1947, filled with courage, skill, and determination, Jackie Robinson changed history by becoming the first African American player in the major leagues. But how did this happen? Who thought of this idea for great social change? His name was Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and a man of great conviction. I am his great-grandniece and grew up with tales of the Robinsons and baseball's ""Great Experiment,"" a courageous and necessary venture that shaped not only their lives, but history as well. A Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball's Great Experiment explains, through narrative nonfiction, how a farm boy from Duck Run, Ohio, kept ideas ""brewing in his brain"" that led to baseball's integration and eventually helped pave the way for the Civil Rights Movement.

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Professor Emerita of English at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University, Marjorie Maddox has published 17 collections of poetry-including How Can I Look It Up When I Don't Know How It's Spelled? Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks (Kelsay Books); Seeing Things (Wildhouse); and Hover Here (Broadstone, forthcoming), as well as the ekphrastic collaborations Small Earthly Space; Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (both with Karen Elias) and In the Museum of My Daughter's Mind (with daughter Anna Lee Hafer www.hafer.work, a 2023 Dragonfly Book Award in photography/fine arts and American Fiction Winner Award in poetry) and others. In addition, she has published the story collection What She Was Saying (Fomite Press); 4 children's and YA books-including Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises: (Kelsay Books, Finalist International Book Awards), A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry; (Boyd Mills Press/Wipf & Stock), I'm Feeling Blue, Too! (Wipf & Stock, a 2021 NCTE Notable Poetry Book), and Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (Boyd Mills Press/Wipf & Stock). She is the assistant editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry and the co-editor of two anthologies from Pennsylvania State University Press: Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2005) and Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2025). She hosts Poetry Moment for WPSU-FM. The recipient of numerous awards, she gives readings and workshops around the world. For more information, please see www.marjoriemaddox.com

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