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Branch Rickey

Jimmy Breslin

3.43/5 (489 ratings)

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""Branch Rickey" is all good, all 146 pages of it. You might read a longer baseball book this year, but you won't read a better one."
-"Sports Illustrated"
In a brilliant match between author and subject, this latest addition to the Penguin Lives series features the inimitable Jimmy Breslin telling the rags-to-riches tale of Branch Rickey, the legendary manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who integrated baseball by putting Jackie Robinson into the major leagues. Moving from the dusty Midwest towns where Rickey built baseball's farm system to the Brooklyn streets where he hatched his most famous plan, Breslin brilliantly captures the heady days when baseball became the national pastime. What emerges is the irresistible story of a schemer and redeemer, a great American who remade a sport-and dreamed of remaking a country.

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Pages:: 147 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: First, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0670022497

ISBN13:: 9780670022496

kindle Asin:: B004H4XGV0

Branch Rickey

Jimmy Breslin

3.43/5 (489 ratings)

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""Branch Rickey" is all good, all 146 pages of it. You might read a longer baseball book this year, but you won't read a better one."
-"Sports Illustrated"
In a brilliant match between author and subject, this latest addition to the Penguin Lives series features the inimitable Jimmy Breslin telling the rags-to-riches tale of Branch Rickey, the legendary manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who integrated baseball by putting Jackie Robinson into the major leagues. Moving from the dusty Midwest towns where Rickey built baseball's farm system to the Brooklyn streets where he hatched his most famous plan, Breslin brilliantly captures the heady days when baseball became the national pastime. What emerges is the irresistible story of a schemer and redeemer, a great American who remade a sport-and dreamed of remaking a country.

Format:

Pages:: 147 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: First, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0670022497

ISBN13:: 9780670022496

kindle Asin:: B004H4XGV0

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