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Branch Rickey (2011)

by Jimmy Breslin(Favorite Author)

3.29 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0670022497 (ISBN13: 9780670022496)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: I was excited to read this; baseball is the best game ever, and the story of Branch Rickey has always fascinated me. I understand that any story of Rickey is woefully incomplete without discussing Jackie Robinson - they're like peanut butter & jelly. But this story is so disjointed and poorly written, and contains so little new material, that it's truly hard to believe it was written by a Pulitzer Prize winner.
review 2: Could be retitled "Branch Rickey Breaks the Color Line". A majority of this short book is on Rickey's moral sense and his actions to break the color line in baseball. This isn't the typical baseball book -- there were way fewer baseball anecdotes. This was in part due to the shortness of the book, and in part due to the focus. Large sections ... moreof the book were about Jackie Robinson and others, so even Rickey didn't have the staring role throughout. I enjoyed the baseball and history of the story, and at times I enjoyed Breslin's writing, but he approached this as a social history and that wasn't what I was looking for. 3 stars for the baseball and Rickey stories, 2 for the rest. less

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