Branch Rickey: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Jimmy Breslin Paperback Book

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Rent Branch Rickey: A Life (Penguin Lives)

Author: Jimmy Breslin

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: Feb 2012

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Sports - Baseball

Retail Price: $17.00

Pages: 160

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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 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. /P

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