The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Takes Us Behind the Headlines of New York's Mafia. Jimmy Breslin can sniff out a story like he can sniff out a rat. Here, he tells a lifetime of anecdotes in his inimitable New York voice, giving u...

A grand-slam combination: an iconic bestselling author remembers the man who integrated baseball.

Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match K...

P "IBranch 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." BR -ISports Illustrated/PP In a brilliant match between author and subject, this latest a...