

True
The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
Author: Kostya Kennedy
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
Unabridged: 9 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/23/2022
Author: Kostya Kennedy
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
Unabridged: 9 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/23/2022
Kostya Kennedy, is the author of 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports and Pete Rose: An American Dilemma. Both were New York Times bestsellers and both earned the Casey Award as Best Baseball Book of its respective year. A former senior writer and assistant managing editor at Sports Illustrated, he is now an editorial director at Time, Inc. As an on-air commentator Kennedy contributes regularly to the MLB Network, MSNBC and other news outlets. He teaches at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business and has taught journalism at NYU and Columbia University. He has edited several books, including The Hockey Book and 2015’s Super Bowl Gold: 50 Years of the Big Game.
Kevin Kenerly, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, earned a BA at Olivet College. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he has acted in more than twenty seasons, playing dozens of roles.
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American Major League Baseball player in modern baseball. There had been others in the late 1800s, namely Bud Fowler and Moses Fleetwood Walker, until Cap Anson refused to play with or against teams with Black ballplayers. This is what star......more
“Kennedy’s chronicle is less a biography of man than a story of a distant time…True pays homage to a beautiful game.”
Wall Street Journal“True explains Robinson in striking, human terms.”
Washington Post“Kevin Kenerly narrates with a dramatic voice, which works because it is aligned with the emotional tone of Kennedy’s writing…There was a loneliness about Robinson, and Kenerly captures that especially well.”
AudioFile“The story of… [a] groundbreaking moment in baseball’s―and the country’s―history.”
San Diego Union Tribune“Baseball fans shouldn’t miss this.”
Publishers Weekly“A fantastic, well-written biography.”
Library Journal“This is a marvelous addition to the library on the ever-important, ever-enigmatic Jackie Robinson.”
Ken Burns, filmmaker“True is a captivating reminder of Jackie Robinson’s greatness not only as a baseball player and trailblazer, but also as a fearless activist for the equal rights and fair treatment of all people. Reading it, I said to myself time and again: ‘I wish I could have met him.’”
John Grisham, New York Times bestselling author