Branch Rickey: A Life Paperback - 2012
by Jimmy Breslin
In his inimitable anecdotal style, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Breslin provides a lively portrait of Branch Rickey, the man who in 1947 integrated major league baseball.
Summary
The book that inspired Harrison Ford in his portrayal of Branch Rickey in the hit movie 42”
In 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 is the irresistible story of a schemer and redeemer, a great American who remade a sport-and dreamed of remaking a country. See Branch Rickey’s life brought to the screen in the hit movie 42” in theaters everywhere now.
Details
- Title Branch Rickey: A Life
- Author Jimmy Breslin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2012-02-28
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780143120476 / 0143120476
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.7 in (18.03 x 12.45 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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