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Branch Rickey : A Life by Jimmy Breslin (2012, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100143120476

ISBN-139780143120476

eBay Product ID (ePID)102928164

Product Key Features

Book TitleBranch Rickey : Alife

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicBaseball / History, Business Aspects, Baseball / General, Sports

Publication Year2012

GenreSports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJimmy Breslin

Book SeriesPenguin Lives Ser.

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight4.4 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

SynopsisThe 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.