The Twilight of Jackie Robinson's Career

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Sep 5, 2022

[ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON May 5, 2022] Inspired by the opening of the Jackie Robinson Museum in New York today, we reair our Full Bio conversation with Kostya Kennedy, author of a new biography about Jackie Robinson, called, True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson. The book comes almost 75 years after Robinson made his professional baseball debut. For this installment, we talk about the twilight of Robinson's career, his disagreements with Dodgers management, and his decision to retire.

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