| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 683 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [643]-653) and index. |
| Contents |
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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965.
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Presidents -- Biography.
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Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965. (OCoLC)fst00084458
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) (OCoLC)fst00533389
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Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965.
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
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Baseball team owners -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
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Baseball team owners. (OCoLC)fst00828039
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Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lowenfish, Lee, 1942- Branch Rickey. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007 9780803211032 0803211031 (DLC) 2006029860 (OCoLC)71552176 |
| ISBN |
9780803207615 (electronic bk.) |
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0803207611 (electronic bk.) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5002 T194 -2007 nbdocs |
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