Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is
Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and
Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America and for Shirley as well, on the ball field and off, America becomes the land of opportunity.
Background Information
Jackie Robinson was a star athlete at the University of Southern California before becoming the first baseball player to break the race barrier in 1947. Brooklyn occupies the west end of Long Island and before its incorporation into New York City was America's fourth largest city in the 1890 census.
