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Author:

Shapiro, Michael, 1952-

Title:

Bottom of the ninth : Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the daring scheme to save baseball from itself / Michael Shapiro.

Edition:

1st Holt pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Holt Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

2010, c2009

Description:

viii, 301 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Baseball--United States--History--20th century.
Rickey, Branch,--1881-1965.
Stengel, Casey.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Times Books, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-288) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0805092366 (pbk.)
9780805092363 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)460059088

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)