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In this heartwarming novel, meticulously researched and based on true stories, a group of nine kids in post-World War II California are brought together by baseball. Free of adult prejudices and united by their love of the game, the kids overcome all obstacles--poverty, racism, physical disability--to become a vision of America's joyous, diverse future.This is an uplifting story with a twist, where the friends, who call themselves The Nine, find themselves on a quest to dig up a communal grave in order to right a wrong. Through their adventures, friends are loyal above all else--to each other. to the team of Negro League players who befriends them, to their teacher, Ms. O'Doul, and to the great American pastime of baseball that makes all things possible.

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"""Before Jackie is a story for our times. What's not to love about a story of nine friends coming of age in the 1940s who are so bonded by their shared love of baseball that the differences in th eir cultural backgrounds are rendered a moot point? Equal parts history lesson, baseball tale, and epic adventure. It will warm your heart."" --Billie Jean King, Founder, Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative"

Before Jackie is a story for our times. What's not to love about a story of nine friends coming of age in the 1940s who are so bonded by their shared love of baseball that the differences in th eir cultural backgrounds are rendered a moot point? Equal parts history lesson, baseball tale, and epic adventure. It will warm your heart. --Billie Jean King, Founder, Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative

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