Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh Baseball's trailblazing general manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955 /

"Branch Rickey was one of the most charismatic figures in all of baseball, a trailblazing general manager who helped bring about the desegregation of the majors, airline travel to road games, and the innovation of the minor league "farm" system." "This work focuses on Rickey...

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Main Author: O'Toole, Andrew.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2000.
Physical Description: ix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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300 |a ix, 213 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 24 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From small things, big things one day come -- Ch. 1: A five year plan -- Ch. 2: Heaven help the Pirates -- Ch. 3: Rickey dinks -- Ch. 4: Wait until those Cubans get a load of this Pirate act -- Ch. 5: The sun will be rising -- Ch. 6: I am not down and out -- Appendix: Branch Rickey's letters -- Notes -- Index. 
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