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" Branch Rickey : "
Lee Lowenfish.
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BL
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1045892
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b800262
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| Main Entry
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Lowenfish, Lee,1942-
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Branch Rickey : : baseball's ferocious gentleman /\ Lee Lowenfish.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, [2007]
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, ©2007
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1 online resource (xv, 683 pages) :: illustrations
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0803207611
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: 1280735082
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: 9780803207615
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: 9781280735080
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0803211031
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9780803211032
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-653) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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.
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Rickey, Branch,1881-1965.
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Rickey, Branch,1881-1965.
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)-- Presidents
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Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
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Baseball team owners-- United States, Biography.
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Baseball team owners.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Sports.
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Presidents.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Baseball-- History.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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796.357092B
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GV865.R45L68 2007eb
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