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HOW TO BE LIKE JACKIE ROBINSON: Life Lessons from Baseball’s Greatest Hero by Pat Williams with Mike Sielski

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Foreword by Allan “Bud” Selig, Commissioner of Baseball)

Tom Brokaw, Author and former NBC News anchor: “Jackie Robinson was a man of enormous resolve and dignity. He was not a patsy. Through all his trials, he always maintained his dignity. Jackie showed all of us how to be courageous and keep moving forward.”

Deerfield Beach, FL – How to Be Like Jackie Robinson (HCI Books-$14.95) is another dynamic book in the How to Be Like, a “character biography” series, which focuses on drawing out important lessons from the life of their subjects. Rather than just reviewing Robinson’s life in full, as so many books on his life have done, How to Be Like Jackie Robinson gives readers lessons and teachings from this remarkable man to take into their daily lives.

‘Everything Jackie’ seems to be the theme right now with the movie “42” hitting the #1 spot at the box office as celebrations take place to honor the 66th anniversary of his becoming the first black man to play in the major leagues. Jackie Robinson was not only one of the most extraordinary athletes of all time, he was a great man who lived his life with dignity and honor.

When Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field on April 15th, 1947, it was as the first African-American ever to play baseball in the major leagues. Robinson broke the “color line,” a segregation practice dating back to the founding of this country. Robinson was not only a baseball hero, but also an amazing agent for social change who played an invaluable role in the civil rights movement. 

In this book, which is by far the most exhaustive in the series as it is based on more than 1,000 interviews, Pat Williams tackles one of the most influential people in recent history. Fans can see how Jackie Robinson became one of the most amazing athletes in baseball and how they can learn from many of his life choices and experiences.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Pat Williams is senior vice-president of the Orlando Magic and author of more than thirty successful books, including four books in the How to Be Like series.

Mike Sielski is Sportswriter for the Wall Street Journal. A graduate of La Salle University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he has won more than thirty local, state and national journalism awards and was named one of the twenty best newspaper people under age 40 in the nation by the Newspaper Association of America.

Available at bookstores or to order directly from the publisher, contact: HCI Books
(800) 441-5569 or www.hcibooks.com .

How to Be Like Jackie Robinson: Life Lessons from Baseball’s Greatest Hero
By Pat Williams with Mike Sielski
ISBN: 0-7573-0173-8
$14.95 – Trade paperback

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