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Title: Stealing Home : Intimate Family Portrait by the Daughter of Jackie Robinson, An by Mary Stolz, Pat Cummings ISBN: 0-06-017191-X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 03 July, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: The Robinson Home
Comment: I guess I went into this book with the wrong expectations. I thought this would be a book about Jackie Robinson. But it was almost exclusively about Sharon, his daughter. And though she had an interesting life, I feel like her book didn't go far beyond the surface.

I felt like she really didn't know her father all that well, or at least she didn't express that in the story. I have no doubt that Jackie Robinson was as great a man as the public believed him to be. However after reading this book, it seems like Sharon got parts of her life from reading articles from past newspapers. I don't feel like I understand the workings of her family any better than I would if I had simply watched old news clips.

I wasn't ever bored with the book and I am glad that the Robinson's were a functionsl black family amidst so much external societal strife. Sharon does do a good job of showing the rest of us the priveleages and the tribulations of being the child of a famous African-A! merican in the 1950's and 60's. She also shows that there are still racial conflicts even when blacks and whites are on the same economic level. Overall its a B+, Robinson was not only a premiere ballplayer, but an outstanding father!