42: The Jackie Robinson Story

The Official Movie Novel

by Aaron Rosenberg

Some "Text to Text" & "Text to World" connections to explore..

- The Jackie Robinson Museum
- Biography Channel: Jackie Robinson
- Baseball Reference: Jackie Robinson

- National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: Jackie Robinson
- National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: Wendell Smith
- National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: Branch Rickey

- USA Today: "Jackie Robinson, A Man of Faith"
- The Library of Congress: American Memory- Baseball and Jackie Robinson
- IMDB- 42: The True Story of an American Legend

- PBS: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: "Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball"
- PBS: "Was Jackie Robinson Court- Martialed?" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

- The New York Times: "The Superhero Who Leapt Color Lines, Jackie Robinson- the Hero in 42"
- The New York Times: "Jackie Robinson and a Barrier Unbroken"
- One Phillies Player Apologized to Jackie Robinson for Ben Chapman's Racism

- Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon
- Explore Ken Burns in the Classroom: Civil Rights Movement to learn more about the work Jackie Robinson and Rachel Robinson did to break the color barrier in major league baseball and beyond.

A New Hampshire Connection

Explore this great article and video from WMUR about the minor league team based in Nashua: "Nashua Dodgers led way to integration in American baseball: Team had first integrated roster in sport"

Baseball in 20th Century Popular Culture

Read "Who's on First?" and then take a look at Abbott & Costello in action here.