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Bottom of the ninth : Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the daring scheme to save baseball from itself
Title:
Bottom of the ninth : Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the daring scheme to save baseball from itself
Author:
Shapiro, Michael, 1952-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Holt paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Holt Paperbacks, 2010.

©2009
Physical Description:
viii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:
Recounts how baseball in the late 1950s reached a critical point in the sport's history, as Branch Rickey and Casey Stengel--two larger-than-life figures--each embarked on a quest to reinvent baseball both on and off the field.
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Times Books, 2009.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780805092363
Format :
Book