Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie's
widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin,
Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others,
celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager
Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together
to shatter baseball's color line. Rickey and Robinson is a dual
biography tracing the convergence of the lives of two of baseball's most
influential individuals in a marker moment in sports and cultural
history.