Title: Branch Rickey's Little Blue Book: Wit and Strategy from Baseball's Last Wise Man
Publisher: Macmillan General Reference
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0028604008
ISBN 13: 9780028604008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 0.66 pounds

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Excerpts and sayings from the revered baseball manager who signed Jackie Robinson illustrate his unparalleled understanding of the game, his motivational techniques, and his philosophy of winning, and are complemented by the reminiscences of baseball greats. 45,000 first printing. $45,000 ad/promo.

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One of baseball's real gentlemen and perhaps its only true revolutionary, Branch Rickey, as president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, made it his mission to change the game--and with it America--by obliterating the color line in 1947. As it took an extraordinary man of will in Jackie Robinson to bear the on-the-field brunt of Rickey's daring, it took a man of equal resolve and courage to conceive and implement the plan in the first place. Rickey, creator as well of baseball's farm system, left a giant and enduring legacy. This slim volume of epigrams and observations--on character, attitude, and baseball itself--compiled from his letters, notes, and personal papers is a treasure trove of good sense, keen insight, and, indeed, some genuine inspiration, a true reflection of the singular man who penned them.

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