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Branch Rickey : baseball's ferocious gentleman

Lee Lowenfish (Author)
He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881-1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized the sport-not just once but three times. In this definitive biography of Rickey-the man sportswriters dubbed "The Brain," "The Mahatma," and, on occasion, "El Cheapo"--Lee Lowenfish tells the full and colorful story of a life that forever changed the face of America's game

eBook, English, 2007
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007