MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2006029860
003 DLC
005 20070402092350.0
008 060911s2007 nbua b 001 0beng
010 $a 2006029860
020 $a9780803211032 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0803211031 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm71552176
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dC#P$dYDX$dYDXCP$dIXA$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aGV865.R45$bL68 2007
082 00 $a796.357092$aB$222
100 1 $aLowenfish, Lee,$d1942-
245 10 $aBranch Rickey :$bbaseball's ferocious gentleman /$cLee Lowenfish.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$cc2007.
300 $axv, 683 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [643]-653) and index.
505 0 $aList of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Prologue -- The making of a baseball brain, 1899-1918 -- Diamond in the rough -- From catcher to coach -- Branch Rickey and the St. Louis Browns -- "War overshadows everything" -- The St. Louis prime of Branch Rickey, 1919-1942 -- Necessity is the mother of invention -- Years of contention and frustration -- That championship season -- The near-dynastic years and a place in who's who -- Another championship season and then decline -- Prelude to the Gashouse Gang -- The triumph of the Gashouse Gang -- Years of frustration -- More years of loss, and farewells to Dizzy Dean and Charley Barrett -- Going out on top -- The birth of the Mahatma, 1943-1950 -- A branch grows in Brooklyn -- The secret path to the "young man from the West" -- An historic meeting in Brooklyn -- Prelude to a pennant -- When all hell almost broke loose -- When most of Heaven rejoiced -- A year of disappointment, odd choices, and an adieu to Leo -- A branch bends in Brooklyn -- A branch is chopped in Brooklyn -- "My greatest thrill in baseball hasn't happened yet," 1951-1965 -- A branch doesn't grow fast enough in Pittsburgh -- Mr. Rickey prepares to do the continental -- The continental dance card goes blank -- Meet me in St. Louis, final chorus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
600 10 $aRickey, Branch,$d1881-1965.
650 0 $aBaseball team owners$zUnited States$vBiography.
610 20 $aBrooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)$xPresidents$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006029860.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006029860-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006029860-d.html