عنوان

Branch Rickey :

(Number (ISBN

0803207611

(Number (ISBN

1280735082

(Number (ISBN

9780803207615

(Number (ISBN

9781280735080

Erroneous ISBN

0803211031

Erroneous ISBN

9780803211032

Number

b800262

Country Code

nbdocs

Number

U5002 T194 -2007

Title Proper

Branch Rickey :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

baseball's ferocious gentleman /

First Statement of Responsibility

Lee Lowenfish.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lincoln :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Nebraska Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2007]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xv, 683 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-653) and index.

Text of Note

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Prologue -- The making of a baseball brain, 1899-1918 -- Diamond in the rough -- From catcher to coach -- Branch Rickey and the St. Louis Browns -- "War overshadows everything" -- The St. Louis prime of Branch Rickey, 1919-1942 -- Necessity is the mother of invention -- Years of contention and frustration -- That championship season -- The near-dynastic years and a place in who's who -- Another championship season and then decline -- Prelude to the Gashouse Gang -- The triumph of the Gashouse Gang -- Years of frustration -- More years of loss, and farewells to Dizzy Dean and Charley Barrett -- Going out on top -- The birth of the Mahatma, 1943-1950 -- A branch grows in Brooklyn -- The secret path to the "young man from the West" -- An historic meeting in Brooklyn -- Prelude to a pennant -- When all hell almost broke loose -- When most of Heaven rejoiced -- A year of disappointment, odd choices, and an adieu to Leo -- A branch bends in Brooklyn -- A branch is chopped in Brooklyn -- "My greatest thrill in baseball hasn't happened yet," 1951-1965 -- A branch doesn't grow fast enough in Pittsburgh -- Mr. Rickey prepares to do the continental -- The continental dance card goes blank -- Meet me in St. Louis, final chorus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Text of Note

He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881-1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized the sport-not just once but three times. In this definitive biography of Rickey-the man sportswriters dubbed "The Brain," "The Mahatma," and, on occasion, "El Cheapo"--Lee Lowenfish tells the full and colorful story of a life that forever changed the face of America's game.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Title

Branch Rickey.

International Standard Book Number

0803211031

Rickey, Branch,1881-1965.

Rickey, Branch,1881-1965.

Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)-- Presidents

Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)

Baseball team owners-- United States, Biography.

Baseball team owners.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Sports.

Presidents.

SPORTS & RECREATION-- Baseball-- History.

United States.

7

BIO-- 016000

CVS

SPO-- 003030

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Lowenfish, Lee,1942-

Date of Transaction

20201207123819.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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