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An edition of Nice guys finish last (2009)

Nice guys finish last

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"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo "the Lip" Durocher. Following a five-decade career as a player and manager for baseball's most storied franchises, Durocher teamed up with veteran sportswriter Ed Linn to tell the story of his life in the game. The resulting book, Nice Guys Finish Last, is baseball at its best, brimming with personality and full of all the fights and feuds, triumphs and tr.

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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
448

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Subjects

Franco-American baseball managers, Baseball, Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, History, SPORTS & RECREATION, Sports, Durocher, leo, 1906-1991, Baseball, history, Baseball, biography

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Leo Durocher (1906-1991)

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Table of Contents

Book 1. The good old days ; I come to kill you ; The drummer boy ; Strong minds and weak backs ; "What if it doesn't rain?" ; The Gas House Gang ; The manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers ; The first pennant in 21 years ; The second guess
the great national pastime ; The ballad of Van Lingle Mungo ; I once won an argument with an umpire
Book 2. The days of trial and glory ; Jackie ; Mr. Rickey ; A night flight to Columbus ; A hamfat politician named Happy ; Hello Horace, goodbye Ebbets Field ; My kind of team ; How to become a miracle manager ; The eye-talian street singer and a couple of other heavy hitters
Book 3. The new breed ; How I didn't become manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, etcetera ; Something good is going to happen tomorrow ; Mister Cub ; The Santo explosion ; It can't be happening to me again ; The diminishing manager ; Whatever happened to sit down, shut up and listen?

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Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, [1975].

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Dewey Decimal Class
796.357092, B
Library of Congress
GV865.D83 A3 2009eb, GV865

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1 online resource (448 pages)
Number of pages
448

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Open Library
OL26603416M
ISBN 10
0226173895
ISBN 13
9780226173894
OCLC/WorldCat
464679386

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