Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh
Subtitle: Baseball's Trailblazing General Manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: July 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780786408399
Subjects: Baseball; Biography: sport; c 1945 to c 1960; Coaching - Baseball; Baseball managers; Sports & Recreation; Biography / Autobiography; Sports; Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team); Baseball - History; Baseball - Specific Teams; Sports - Baseball; United States; 1881-1965; Biography; Rickey, Branch,
First sentence: This book has its origins in the summer of 1997.
Description: "Branch Rickey was one of the most charismatic figures in all of baseball, a trailblazing general manager who helped bring about the desegregation of the majors, airline travel to road games, and the innovation of the minor league "farm" system." "This work focuses on Rickey's tenure as general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, from 1950 through 1955. In addition to contemporary accounts, Rickey's personal correspondence and interoffice memorandums are used to document his struggle to revamp the fate of a small-market team."--Jacket.