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Branch Rickey / Jimmy Breslin.
- Title
- Branch Rickey / Jimmy Breslin.
- Author
- Breslin, Jimmy
- Publication
- New York : Viking, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | GV865.R45 B74 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 147 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- A bestselling author remembers the man who integrated baseball. The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever.
- Series Statement
- A penguin life
- Uniform Title
- Penguin lives series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Note
- "A Lipper/Viking book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 147).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780670022496 (hbk.)
- 0670022497 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010035008
- OCLC
- 650210636
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library