Overview
The extraordinary memoir from baseball icon Jackie Robinson--originally published in 1948, just a year after he shattered baseball's color barrier, and now released as an audiobook for the very first time. I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me...all I ask is that you respect me as a human being. So says #42, who comes alive to share his story, up to and through that historic first season, as told to famed sportswriter Wendell Smith, with a foreword by Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey. Travel back in time, as the Dodgers legend guides you through his athletic upbringing, his short stint with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues, and his breakthrough to the big leagues, at the age of twenty-eight.
Full Product Details
Author: Jackie Robinson ,
David Sadzin ,
Kyle Tait ,
Branch Rickey
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Imprint: Spoken Realms
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9781664790933
ISBN 10: 1664790934
Publication Date: 01 December 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
In 1947, Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) pioneered the integration of American professional athletics by becoming the first black player in Major League Baseball. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. After retiring from baseball, Robinson chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped open the black-owned and -operated Freedom National Bank, built low-income housing, and was active in politics. When he was seven, David Sadzin's first grade teacher gave him a paragraph to read out loud. She interrupted him halfway to proclaim him The Ringmaster in his class's musical extravaganza about the circus. He's been using his voice to get out of trouble ever since. After a few intense years on New York's stages, performing traditional and experimental theater, improv, and sketch comedy, he's now settled comfortably in front of the mic in his home studio in Brooklyn. Kyle Tait is a professionally trained voice actor and narrator in Atlanta, Georgia. His first brush with a microphone came in sports radio, calling baseball in the Atlanta Braves' organization. To pass the time in the off-season, he started voicing audiobooks, and a few years later he left baseball and went into narration full-time. Now his voice can be heard on a variety of audiobook and corporate voice-over outlets worldwide. When not in the studio, Tait can still be found moonlighting in the sports world, calling football, basketball, baseball, and softball on a variety of TV and radio outlets. He's also a studio host with IMG College, anchoring football and basketball broadcasts for schools like TCU, UConn, and Arizona.
