Baseball Card Adventures (Pb): Jackie & Me (Hardcover)

from bplma

In order to write an essay for school, 12 year old Joe Stoshak uses his baseball card collection to travel back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson and learns to understand better the racsim Robinson faced as the first African American in major league baseball; Stoshak, who is white, arrives in 1947 ...

from asomers

I had never read any of the Baseball Card series books before. This one is part of our Battle of the Books challenge for this year. This is a great story for any student that loves history and/or baseball. It provides a very realistic portrayal of the racial biases of the period.

from Othemts

This is the second book in the Baseball Card Adventure in which Joe Stoshack uses his power to travel through time using baseball cards to meet Jackie Robinson. As an added wrinkle to the story, he initially arrives in 1947 as an African American boy and directly experiences the racial animus of ...

from mrsarey

When Joe Stoshack goes back to 1947, he thinks he's only going to learn about Jackie Robinson for a report. Instead, he learns what it was like to be black before desegregation. This is a great book.

from bostonfan

If you like sports books then you would like this book.