Branch Rickey's Little Blue Book: Wit and Strategy from Baseball's Last Wise Man
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.