| Description |
xv, 683 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [643]-653) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965.
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Baseball team owners -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780803211032 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0803211031 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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