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Branch Rickey : baseball's ferocious gentleman / Lee Lowenfish.
Van Pelt Library GV865.R45 L68 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowenfish, Lee, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965.
- Rickey, Branch.
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team).
- Baseball team owners--United States--Biography.
- Baseball team owners.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)--Presidents--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 683 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [643]-653) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803211032
- 0803211031
- OCLC:
- 71552176
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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