Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself by Michael Shapiro

Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself

Michael Shapiro

303 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history sports informative medium-paced
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Fifty years ago, as baseball faced crises on and off the field, two larger-than-life figures took center stage, each on a quest to reinvent the national pastimeIn the late 1950s, baseball was under siege. Up-and-coming cities that wanted teams of ...

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