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Overview

"Branch Rickey is all good, all 146 pages of it. You might read a longer baseball book this year, but you won't read a better one."
-Sports Illustrated

In a brilliant match between author and subject, this latest addition to the Penguin Lives series features the inimitable Jimmy Breslin telling the rags-to-riches tale of Branch Rickey, the legendary manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who integrated baseball by putting Jackie Robinson into the major leagues. Moving from the dusty Midwest towns where Rickey built baseball's farm system to the Brooklyn streets where he hatched his most famous plan, Breslin brilliantly captures the heady days when baseball became the national pastime. What emerges is the irresistible story of a schemer and redeemer, a great American who remade a sport-and dreamed of remaking a country.

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Quite simply, this is the author-subject-series matchup of the month. Veteran journalist Jimmy Breslin is one of the great raconteurs of writing; a man with an inimitable for capturing a man or a moment with a telling story. Baseball owner Branch Rickey is the man who brought Jackie Robinson, the first African American player to the major leagues. And the Penguin Lives series presents biography at its best and most succinct. Not since Ticker to Evers to Chance has there been such synergy.

Publishers Weekly
Pulitzer Prize–winning Breslin offers this slim biography on baseball manager and executive Branch Rickey, a man Breslin refers to as a “Great American.” What results is a well-rounded look at a man who not only reformed competitive sports but also influenced the norms of society by helping Jackie Robinson break baseball’s color barrier. Born to a tight-knit family in Ohio in the late 19th century, Rickey’s career as a major league player didn’t last long (as a catcher, he once allowed 13 stolen bases in a game), so he graduated from law school and became the manager of the St. Louis Browns. Yet his most far-reaching achievements happened decades later during his time in Brooklyn, when he shook baseball to its foundations by bringing Robinson to the Dodgers. Rickey as general manager knew there would be backlash and Robinson would be subject to rampant racism, but he was undeterred and never stooped to the level of those who attempted to sabotage his work. As he later told a group of students, “racial extractions and color hues and forms of worship become secondary to what men can do.” Breslin’s gift for easy-to-read yet hard-hitting prose will touch even those who aren’t baseball fans. (Mar.)
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Pulitzer Prize winner Breslin reveals much about the development of baseball, the Dodgers' last years in Brooklyn, and the struggle to overcome the national pastime's racism while tracing the life, deeds, and some (but not all) of Branch Rickey's warts. A breezy read, this "Penguin Life" is nonetheless insightful, humorous, and biting at times as it traces how the man dubbed "the Mahatma" by sportswriters emerged from obscurity as an Idaho lawyer to develop the baseball farm system, multiple MLB winners, Vero Beach spring training, the scientific teaching of skills, and the MLB expansion that brought New York the Mets. Breslin clearly admires Rickey. Lovers of the author, baseball, and/or Americana will be delighted to relive this trailblazer's life in this superlative gloss, which, owing to brevity, will not replace more extensive Rickey biographies.—G.R.
Kirkus Reviews

This entry in the Penguin Lives series focuses on Branch Rickey's game-changing efforts to bring Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers, shattering baseball's race barrier.

At the age of 80, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Breslin (The Good Rat: A True Story, 2008, etc.) retains his legendary savvy street smarts and crustiness. In a brief volume about a baseball executive, he creates opportunities to crack wise ("Baseball was a sport for hillbillies with great eyesight"), skewer (actress Tallulah Bankhead was "a loud dimwit from Alabama") and appropriately condemn (he blasts baseball journalists of the Robinson era for their unconscionable social blindness and moral retardation). Wesley Branch Rickey (1881–1965), born on an Ohio farm, attended Ohio Wesleyan University, played baseball, made it to the pros (he didn't excel), went to law school and then returned to baseball, where he spent most of the rest of his life as an executive. Breslin credits him for inventing the farm system—a system he compares, fairly crudely, with slavery. The author skims across most of Rickey's career, rightly highlights his efforts to integrate Major League Baseball and shows how the trio of black players Rickey brought to the Dodgers—Robinson, pitcher Don Newcombe, catcher Roy Campanella—elevated the team to elite status. Breslin covers Rickey's final years in a furious few pages, including a stand-alone chapter about legendary black pitcher Satchel Paige. Along the way, we catch glimpses of Rickey's Christian piety, his GOP allegiance and his hand in assembling the 1960 Pirates, a team that defeated the Yankees in Game 7 of the World Series with a home run by second baseman Bill Mazeroski, the last player Rickey had scouted. Breslin ends in 2008 with the election of Barack Obama, an event he alluded to on page one.

Quirky, idiosyncratic, oddly balanced and surpassingly entertaining.

David Oshinsky
Much has been written about [Rickey's] role in the integration of major league baseball, and Jimmy Breslin's slim biography, Branch Rickey, breaks no new factual ground. What Breslin has done, with his usual gritty perception, is revive a story of enormous consequence…Breslin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is a master of the spare narrative.
—The New York Times
Steven Levingston
[Breslin's] effort is less a full biography than an anecdotal retelling of Rickey's plot to knock down the door to the all-white club of the major leagues…It's a slim book, but one pauses over its many bold turns of phrase and mood-setting riffs…Breslin brings his trademark grit and grace to the combustible issue of civil rights in baseball.
—The Washington Post

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780670022496
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/17/2011
  • Pages: 160
  • Sales rank: 182,263
  • Series: Penguin Lives Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.22 (w) x 7.68 (h) x 0.66 (d)

Meet the Author

Jimmy Breslin was born in Jamaica, Queens. He is the author of multiple bestselling and critically acclaimed books, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. He lives in New York City.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 23, 2011

    great! Read it!

    Easy reading but such a wonderful version of the famous story of Jackie Robinson. Breslin describes the careful campaign Rickey waged to introduce a black into major league baseball. He describes how Rickey wanted to this out of a deep moral conviction that it was the right thing to do and sold it as an important source of increased revenue. The book also describes club owners, the farm system. sports writers and is filled with wonderful stories and insights into the life of baseball,

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 22, 2011

    Not Worth the Money

    To start, you can't tell the story of Robinson and Rickey in 109 pages. The story and the characters are to complex. This book is a disservice to both men and what they did for baseball and this country. Breslin lists a handfull of books worth reading on Branch Rickey. I'm sorry Mr. Breslin, but your book doesn't make the list. Read the intro and pick one of the other books.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2012

    Mudstar

    I was locked out. Go to blizzard first reslt!

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    Posted April 17, 2012

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    Posted April 17, 2012

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    Takes all of the cats and stuffs them into a cage and carries the to: twoleg, all results.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 7, 2012

    DARKNESS TERRITORY

    Ha

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 27, 2012

    Ninja to all

    Result three now

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 27, 2012

    URGENT!!!!!!

    Who jis the med cat in birchclan? We need help in the fourth result!!!!!!!!! HURRY!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 26, 2012

    ATTENTION ALL BIRCHCLAN CATS

    Ur leader is being impostered she wants u to move to Birch all results. Her bff~Lightningstar Leader of the Timeclan

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 8, 2012

    Nope

    Its still Birchclan territory!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 2, 2012

    Leafkit

    Could someone tell sweeterry and snowstar 2 meet me at branches third result? Thanks a BUNCH! -leafkit

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  • Posted February 28, 2012

    Poorly organized, uninformative

    This painfully short biography provides little real information and the author appears less interested in the story but rather he is enamored with the way he is telling it. It is disjointed and poorly organized. There are obtuse references that go unexplained and undocumented. The author's personal biases and frank prejudices are more apparent and he seems more interested in communicating them than the captivating and valiant story of Robinson and Rickey. All in all, extremely disappointing. Bottom line: Other, better biographies exist, by unbiased, more articulate authors.this is an unfortunate waste of reading time.

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    Posted February 22, 2012

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  • Posted September 25, 2011

    BRESLIN RIDES AGAIN!

    ANY YEAR WITH A BOOK IN IT FROM JIMMY BRESLIN IS A GREAT YEAR. THIS MAKES 2011 A GREAT YEAR. BRANCH RICKEY, THE MAN WHO INTRODUCED JACKIE ROBINSON TO MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, WAS PARSIMONIOUS, PIOUS AND A BUSINESS MAN AND A BASEBALL ENTREPRENEUR BAR NONE. ASIDE FROM BREAKING THE COLOR LINE, HE DEVELOPED THE FARM TEAM SYSTEM, SPOTTED AND BROUGHT INTO BASEBALL SUCH TALENTS AS SISLER, MAZEROSKI, CAMPY AND OTHERS. WHILE MAKING MONEY HE REMAINED ALL BASEBALL, ALL THE TIME. MESSR. BRESLIN DOES RICKEY PROUD, BRINGNG OUT HIS HUMANITY AND HIS DEVOTION TO THE GAME, WHILE SHEDDING HIS REPORTER'S HIGH POWERED LIGHT ON BASEBALL AS IT WAS THEN. FOR ALL THIS, THE AUTHOR IS GIVEN A WELL DESERVED TIP O' THE CHAPEUAX: AND THIS KUDO...IF BRESLIN WROTE THE PHONE BOOK, I WOULD BUY & READ THE PHONE BOOK!

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