Bottom of the Ninth Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself

Name: Bottom of the Ninth Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
Price: 7.79 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780805092363

ISBN-10: 0805092366

ISBN-13: 9780805092363

Edition: N/A

Authors: Michael Shapiro

List price: $32.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $17.74

Marketplace

5 new & used from $7.79

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

"A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons." Cleveland Plain DealerInBottom of the Ninth, Michael Shapiro brings to life a watershed moment in baseball history, when baseball was under seige in the late 1950s. He reveals how the legendary executive Branch Rickey saw the game's salvation in two radical ideas: the creation of a third major leaguethe Continental Leagueand the pooling of television revenues for the benefit of all. And Shapiro captures the audacity of Casey Stengel, the manager of the Yankees, who believed that he could remake how baseball was played.The story of their ingenious schemesand of the powerful men who tried…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/27/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.27" wide x 8.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English