Kennedy, Kostya

Explores four major seasons of Jackie Robinson's baseball career.

Charts the dangers of playing football for high school students by following one team in New Rochelle, New York.

Provides an account of Joe DiMaggio's fifty-six consecutive-game hitting streak in the summer of 1941, when he was a relatively unknown twenty-six-year-old player with the New York Yankees, and discusses how the record-breaking accomplishment gripped the attention of the nation in the tense days before the country's entry into World War II.