Branch Rickey : baseball's ferocious gentleman
Record details
- ISBN: 1280735082
- ISBN: 9781280735080
- ISBN: 0803207611
- ISBN: 9780803207615
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 683 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-653) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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