Branch Rickey: A Life (Penguin Lives)

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UPC:
9780143120476
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
2/28/2012
Release Date:
2/28/2012
Author:
Jimmy Breslin
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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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 Rickeys life brought to the screen in the hit movie 42 in theaters everywhere now.