Branch Rickey A Life

Name: Branch Rickey A Life
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ISBN: 9780143120476

ISBN-10: 0143120476

ISBN-13: 9780143120476

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jimmy Breslin

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"Branch Rickeyis all good, all 146 pages of it. You might read a longer baseball book this year, but you won't read a better one." -Sports IllustratedIn 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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.05" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English

Jimmy Breslin's legendary columns are in syndication nationwide. In 1986, while at "New York Daily News", he received a Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary & is also the author of the memoir, "I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me", "I Don't Want to Go to Jail" is his eleventh book.