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" Nice guys finish last / "
by Leo Durocher ; with Ed Linn.
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BL
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946561
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b700931
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| Main Entry
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Durocher, Leo,1905-1991.
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Nice guys finish last /\ by Leo Durocher ; with Ed Linn.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (448 pages)
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0226173887
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9780226173887
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| Contents
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Book 1. The good old days ; I come to kill you ; The drummer boy ; Strong minds and weak backs ; "What if it doesn't rain?" ; The Gas House Gang ; The manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers ; The first pennant in 21 years ; The second guess -- the great national pastime ; The ballad of Van Lingle Mungo ; I once won an argument with an umpire -- Book 2. The days of trial and glory ; Jackie ; Mr. Rickey ; A night flight to Columbus ; A hamfat politician named Happy ; Hello Horace, goodbye Ebbets Field ; My kind of team ; How to become a miracle manager ; The eye-talian street singer and a couple of other heavy hitters -- Book 3. The new breed ; How I didn't become manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, etcetera ; Something good is going to happen tomorrow ; Mister Cub ; The Santo explosion ; It can't be happening to me again ; The diminishing manager ; Whatever happened to sit down, shut up and listen?
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<Div><div> "I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"<br><br>The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo "the Lip" Durocher. Following a five-decade career as a player and manager for baseball's most storied franchises, Durocher teamed up with veteran sportswriter Ed Linn to tell the story of his life in the game. The resulting book, <i>Nice Guys Finish Last</i>, is baseball at its best, brimming with personality and full of all the fights a.
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Durocher, Leo,1905-1991.
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Durocher, Leo,1905-1991
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Baseball managers-- United States, Biography.
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Baseball-- United States-- History.
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Baseball managers.
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Baseball.
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SPORTS RECREATION / General.
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United States.
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796.357092
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GV865.D83A3 2009eb
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Linn, Edward.
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