Nice guys finish last
By: by Leo Durocher ; with Ed Linn
Contributors: Linn, Edward
Edition: University of Chicago Press ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780226173894
Subjects: Franco-American baseball managers; Baseball; Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; History; SPORTS & RECREATION; Sports
Description: "I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo "the Lip" Durocher. Following a five-decade career as a player and manager for baseball's most storied franchises, Durocher teamed up with veteran sportswriter Ed Linn to tell the story of his life in the game. The resulting book, Nice Guys Finish Last, is baseball at its best, brimming with personality and full of all the fights and feuds, triumphs and tr.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, [1975].

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Table of contents: title: Book 1. The good old days ; I come to kill you ; The drummer boy ; Strong minds and weak backs ; "What if it doesn't rain?" ; The Gas House Gang ; The manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers ; The first pennant in 21 years ; The second guess; title: the great national pastime ; The ballad of Van Lingle Mungo ; I once won an argument with an umpire; title: Book 2. The days of trial and glory ; Jackie ; Mr. Rickey ; A night flight to Columbus ; A hamfat politician named Happy ; Hello Horace, goodbye Ebbets Field ; My kind of team ; How to become a miracle manager ; The eye-talian street singer and a couple of other heavy hitters; title: Book 3. The new breed ; How I didn't become manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, etcetera ; Something good is going to happen tomorrow ; Mister Cub ; The Santo explosion ; It can't be happening to me again ; The diminishing manager ; Whatever happened to sit down, shut up and listen?