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Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year

True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's―and America's―most significant figures.

For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball’s singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a half-century since Robinson’s death, letters come to his widow, Rachel, by the score. But Ro

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True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson by Kostya Kennedy Book Review

Name: Rick Shaq Goldstein
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: RICK “SHAQ” GOLDSTEIN SAYS: I WAS THERE… AT THE LAST REGULAR SEASON GAME JACKIE EVER PLAYED!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2022
Review: As a third generation Brooklyn boy… born to Brooklyn Dodger loving parents…who for the first ten years of marriage before having children spent almost every weekend watching our beloved “BUMS” at Ebbets Field… before I got to go to my first Brooklyn Dodger game… my Dad sat me on his lap in front of our minuscule TV screen that was embedded in a giant box… to watch our “Bums” on TV. I will never forget when my beloved Dad said: “Rich… I’ve been to hundreds of games… and the most exciting player I have ever seen… is Jackie Robinson!”

And so my life and love of Jackie and the Dodgers exploded into full eternal bloom… and on September 30, 1956 I went with my Dad to Ebbets Field to see MY HEROES… JACKIE AND THE BOYS OF SUMMER! They had to win the last game of the season (AND THEY DID!) against the Pirates to win the 1956 National League pennant… by one game. With Big Newk pitching… “ The Duke of Flatbush” hit two home-runs to win the National League Home Run crown… little Sandy Amoros who was the fielding hero of game seven of the 1955 World Series that led to OUR BUMS BEING WORLD CHAMPIONS… AND THE ETERNAL WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR MISERY WAS FINALLY ENDED… hit two home-runs … AND I SAW MY HERO JACKIE ROBINSON HIT A HOMERUN IN THE LAST REGULAR SEASON GAME HE WOULD EVER PLAY!

From that moment on for the next sixty-five-plus-years… I have followed every meaningful movement and breath of Jackie’s life and legacy… read every meaningful book and article… watched every movie and documentary… and more importantly… educated and infused my son… and my grandchildren… in the miracle of Jackie Robinson. So fully have I dedicated myself to that task… that even my Granddaughters have always worn NUMBER 42 on every athletic team they’ve been on. When my son would get my girls psyched up before each of their softball games before they left the house… by playing CENTERFIELD… by John Fogerty… and I would hear them simultaneously yell in their beautiful young girl voices “THERE’S JACKIE!”… I would get tears in my eyes and my heart would go back to Brooklyn! (By the way… my youngest Granddaughter’s middle name is BROOKLYN!)

I share all of this with potential readers to instill the greatest confidence in potential readers… that I hold Jackie so high in my life and my very soul… I would never review anything regarding Jackie without holding it to the highest bar possible… no free passes or “intentional-walks” from me. It seems to me… that Jackie and Abe Lincoln have one modern phenomena in common… it seems every other week there’s a new book released on them… and it comes to a point… as far as I can tell… that Jackie and Old Abe haven’t done anything new in quite a while.

This book “True”… tries to take a new approach. It doesn’t even attempt to tell Robinson’s whole life story. Doesn’t zero in on his innumerable accomplishments… heartbreaks… obstacles… and unwavering day to day courage… and anger… and competitive zeal. It zeroes in on four years of Jackie’s life. 1946 the year before breaking the color line in Major League Baseball when he played on the Montreal Royals… the Dodgers top minor league team… 1949… Robbie’s third big league season when he won the NL MVP… batting title… stolen base crown… and led our Bums to the World Series… and perhaps just as importantly… with his mentor Branch Rickey’s permission and guidance… stopped TURNING-THE-OTHER-CHEEK… 1956 (as mentioned above) his last season in baseball… and the year he passed away 1972.

To me the epitome of a misguided tangent is the portion on 1946. The author starts waxing poetic on “WHAT-IF” the Brooklyn Dodgers had brought Jackie up to the parent club to assist in the fierce pennant race the Dodgers were having with the St. Louis Cardinals… which actually resulted in the first regular season tie in Major League history. The author goes on for pages on a whimsical what-if… would they have won in 1946… would 1947 been different… the 1950’s etc. … what Jackie could have hit and accomplished instead of other players. It becomes ridiculous… because Jackie IN-REAL-LIFE accomplished so many things… and the author only decided to write about four years… but then… literally babbles on about what might have happened… instead of what did.

There are certainly enjoyable parts to read… but there are certainly not buckets of new ground. Just like Honest Abe… “Four score and seven years ago… is still four score and seven years ago.”

I will close with this soulful thought… In my lifetime… I have seen Clemente at the right field foul pole… take one step and throw a ball that never went higher… nor lower… than three feet from the ground… sail like a frozen rope to third base and get a runner out… I’ve seen Koufax pitch a no-hitter… with a form that is at once poetic… and simultaneously… his legs on the follow-through… like a gold-medal gymnast doing the splits on the grass… I’ve seen Willie constantly run out from under his purposefully too large hat… I’ve seen Lou Brock… Maury Wills… and Ricky… steal hundreds of bases with the crowd yelling GO! GO!... I’ve seen Mantle hit it to the outer reaches of Yankee Stadium… I’ve seen Bob Gibson… “Big D”… and “The Barber”… serenade any batter so bold and out of line… to lean over the plate… or look at them wrong… with mal -intended “ chin –music”… I’ve seen Ernie Banks and Henry Aaron… use their wrists like no other human being… and I’ve seen Kirk Gibson make “The Natural”… seem like an under achiever…

But the most other worldly *EVENT*… with no possibility of imitation… that I have ever seen on a baseball field… was JACKIE ROBINSON IN A RUNDOWN! IT WAS A COMBINATION OF JIM BROWN AND BARYSHNIKOV… A COMBINATION OF BO JACKSON AND BOB HAYES… IT WAS A COMBINATION OF VAN GOGH AND EINSTEIN… IT DIDN’T MATTER HOW MANY MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSING TEAM JOINED IN AND GANGED UP ON JACKIE… IT WASN’T FAIR… JACKIE TOYED WITH THEM.. ALL THE WHILE JACKIE’S HANDSOME FACE HAD A LOOK OF… CONTROLLED FURY… AND MENACE… DRIPPING WITH SWEAT AND INTELLIGENCE… HE COULD RUN OVER YOU… AROUND YOU… THROUGH YOU… HE COULD START AND STOP… ON A DIME AND GIVE NINE CENTS CHANGE… SURROUNDED BY THE ENEMY… HE MADE THEM ALL LOOK FOOLISH… BY HIMSELF… IT WASN’T FAIR… JACKIE WAS A MAGICIAN ON THE BASE PATHS… AND HE ALWAYS HAD FORTY-TWO-ACES UP HIS SLEEVES… MICHELANGELO HAD ONE CHAPEL TO PAINT… JACKIE HAD MANY RUNDOWNS TO SCULPT… IN HEARTS OF THE LUCKY FANS WHO SAW THEM… AS EVERY MAN… WOMAN… CHILD… RACE… CREED… OR COLOR… IN ATTENDANCE AT A GAME… WOULD RISE AS ONE… WHEN JACKIE STARTED DANCING ON THE BASE-PATHS… CREATING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HAVOC… MANKIND WAS EVER BLESSED TO SEE ON AN ATHLETIC FIELD!!!

Rest in peace Jackie… you live on with me… this book could have been so much more!

Name: Bill Emblom
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Unique Look at Jackie Robinson
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022
Review: With so many books written about Jackie Robinson one has to wonder what author Kostya Kennedy has to say that hasn't already been said several times over. The author chooses a unique method of writing his book by choosing four particular seasons that were especially memorable to Robinson namely 1946, 1949, 1956, and 1972.

Robinson's experiences in Montreal while playing for the Dodgers' Royals' farm team were positive in which he didn't experience the bigotry he did in the United States. He won over his manager Clay Hopper who initially questioned Robinson's humanity. After winning the championship in Montreal Robinson had to run from the crowd which, ironically, chased him out of love for him.

I admit to being disappointed in Lynwood "Schoolboy" Rowe who later became a coach with "my" Detroit Tigers. As a coach with the Phillies he told the Phillies' pitcher to stick the ball in Robinson's ear. It's difficult for one to imagine the bigotry he experienced and living up to Branch Rickey's order of not to retaliate. Some baseball people thought Monte Irvin should have been chosen to be the trailblazer. What is often overlooked is that Bill Veeck brought Larry Doby to the Cleveland Indians three months later so Doby, also, had to put up with the ignoramuses in the American League. Many major leaguers came from the southern states and knew that Blacks would be a threat to take their position on the roster.

The story of Dodgers' owner Walter O'Malley and his dislike of Robinson who he viewed as an ally of Branch Rickey has been told before and is also related in this book. I was glad to read that Robinson's steal of home against the Yankees in the World Series in which Yogi Berra vigorously claimed he was out would be in the book. I knew the batter at the time, Frank Kellert, was standing near by and he thought Robinson was out and author Kennedy did include this anecdote as well.

I enjoyed the last "season" of the book the most which included Robinson's accomplishments off the field of play and his influence on others despite the fact that he felt he had more of an effect on other people than he had on his own kids. It's probably just as well that we don't know how much we influence those we come in contact with throughout our lifetime. We just plant the seed and let God do the rest.

As I mentioned Larry Doby was the first Black to join an American League team three months after Robinson in 1947 and I would heartedly recommend a recent book entitled "Our Team" by Luke Epplin which tells the story of the 1948 Cleveland Indians owned by Bill Veeck which relates Doby's and "Satchel" Paige's experiences during the Indians' championship year.

Despite the gains made by minorities in America I fear a danger of reverting back to the past with discrimination taking place with voter suppression in certain states. People died fighting for the right to vote in America and it is incumbent on us to see that the words "with liberty and justice for all" are lived up to and not just meaningless words in a pledge.