INSCRIBED BY JACKIE ROBINSON: FIRST EDITION OF BASEBALL HAS DONE IT
ROBINSON, Jackie. Baseball Has Done It. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, (1964). Octavo, original cream cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
First edition of this primary documentation of baseball's integration—"what it is like to be both a baseball star and a Negro," inscribed: "Best wishes to Steve and Rick. Jackie Robinson."
This is an extraordinary collection of interviews between a number of famous black players and baseball legend Jackie Robinson. "Professional athletes seldom speak as frankly to interviewers as these men do to Jackie Robinson. Integration is a fact in baseball— here [African-American players] speak out about what it means to them, to baseball, and to the country." Grobani 8-261.
Book with faint foxing and mild toning to cloth, and small dampstain to base of spine, dust jacket with light wear mainly to extremities. An extremely good inscribed copy.