Sources and suggested reading

Stealing home: an intimate family portrait by the daughter of Jackie Robinson by Sharon Robinson, Harper Collins, 1996.

The biographical encyclopedia of the negro baseball leagues by James Riley, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994.

The Jackie Robinson story by Arthur Mann, Grosset & Dunlap, 1951.

The negro baseball leagues, 1867-1955: a photographic history by Phil Dixon and Patrick J. Hannigan, Amereon House, 1992.

Wait till next year: the Life Story of Jackie Robinson by Carl T.Rowan with Jackie Robinson, Random House, 1960.