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Learn moreThe extraordinary memoir from baseball icon Jackie Robinson—originally published in 1948, just a year after he shattered baseball’s color barrier, and now released as an audiobook for the very first time.
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me…all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
So says #42, who comes alive to share his story, up to and through that historic first season, as told to famed sportswriter Wendell Smith, with a foreword by Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey.
Travel back in time, as the Dodgers legend guides you through his athletic upbringing, his short stint with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues, and his breakthrough to the big leagues, at the age of twenty-eight.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) pioneered the integration of American professional athletics by becoming the first black player in Major League Baseball. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. After retiring from baseball, Robinson chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped open the black-owned and -operated Freedom National Bank, built low-income housing, and was active politics.
David Sadzin began using his voice to get attention in grade school, where his teacher thought he was awfully quiet until she gave him a paragraph to read out loud. After a few intense years on New York stages performing traditional and experimental theater and improv comedy, he is now comfortably settled in front of a mic in his home studio in Brooklyn, New York.