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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11866775.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From small things, big things one day come -- Ch. 1: A five year plan -- Ch. 2: Heaven help the Pirates -- Ch. 3: Rickey dinks -- Ch. 4: Wait until those Cubans get a load of this Pirate act -- Ch. 5: The sun will be rising -- Ch. 6: I am not down and out -- Appendix: Branch Rickey's letters -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 213 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0786408391 (softcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "796.357/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Baseball managers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "GV865.R45 O76 2000".
- catalog subject "Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team)".
- catalog subject "Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From small things, big things one day come -- Ch. 1: A five year plan -- Ch. 2: Heaven help the Pirates -- Ch. 3: Rickey dinks -- Ch. 4: Wait until those Cubans get a load of this Pirate act -- Ch. 5: The sun will be rising -- Ch. 6: I am not down and out -- Appendix: Branch Rickey's letters -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog title "Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh : Baseball's trailblazing general manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955 / by Andrew O'Toole.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".