Wait Till Next Year The Story of Jackie Robinson - Tapa blanda

Wait tell Next Year is the inside story of one of the most dramatic personalities of our time and a re-creation of many of the most exciting moments in modern baseball. If nothing else had counted but hits, runs and errors, Jackie Robinson wouldn't have had many problems during his years as a major figure in the sports world. But his great ability as a player was often over-shadowed by the fact that he was the first Negro in major league baseball. He was - and still is - a man of burning pride and, above all, courage. He is a man who plays to win, on and off the baseball diamond. Jackie Robinson was born in a share-croppers cabin in Georgia. He first won national fame as a college and basketball star at U.C.L.A. And later played in the Negro Baseball leagues. Then, at twenty-six backed by Branch Ricky's tough support, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers organization. During his controversial record-breaking years with the Dodgers - and the important years since his retirement from baseball in 1956 - he has fought constantly for Negro equality and an end to racial antagonism and discrimination. WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR then is much more than a narrative of Jackie Robinson's brilliant sports career. The whole story is here, including the problems that confronted his mother and his wife and children, and the dramatic scenes when Robinson refused to submit to prejudice in the Army, in housing for his family, in baseball training camps. Robinson himself describes for the reader some of these crisis in life, and his wife speaks of the events which especially affected her. Carl Rowan one of the country's finest reporters has written this biography of a great athlete with warmth, sympathy and full awareness of its value as a spirited American document.

In 1956, at the age of thirty, Carl T. Rowan became the only newspaperman ever to win three consecutive awards from Sigma Delta Chi, the nations foremost professional journalist organization. He won its coveted medallion for the best foreign correspondence of 1956 for his articles on Southeast Asia and his coverage of the handling Bandaung Conference. A year earlier he had won the foreign correspondence medallion for his articles on India. (These foreign experiences were described in his second book, The Pitiful and the Proud.) Sigma Delta Chi had also, in 1954, cited his articles on the school segregation cases then pending before the United States Supreme Court as the nations best general reporting of 1953. In 1952, his first book, South of Freedom, was published. In Go South to Sorrow, 1957, he evaluated the progress of integration since the historic Supreme Court decision. Since 1950, when he became a staff writer for the Minneapolis Tribune After a two-year stint on the copy desk, Rowan has won awards from many other organizations, including the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Capital Press Club, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He has also been awarded honorary degrees from Simpson College and Hamline University. After graduation from Bernard High School in McMinnville Tennessee, Mr. Rowan spend three years in the Navy during World War II. At the age of nineteen he won one of the first fifteen commissions granted to Negros. He studied at Tennessee State University; Washburn University; Oberlin College for a bachelor's degree in mathematics; and at the University of Minnesota for a master's degree in journalism. Mr. Rowan lived in Minneapolis with his wife and three children.