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He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881 1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized the sport not just once but three times. In this definitive biography of Rickey the man sportswriters dubbed The Brain, The Mahatma, and, on occasion, El Cheapo Lee Lowenfish tells the full and colorful story of a life that forever changed the face of America s game.As the mastermind behind the Saint Louis Cardinals from 1917 to 1942, Rickey created the farm system, which allowed small-market clubs to compete with the rich and powerful. Under his...

From the introduction of the reserve clause in 1879 to the lockout and new basic agreement of 1990, baseball players have been engaged in one of the longest and most colorful labor struggles in our nation s history. The Imperfect Diamond tells the stories of the players and their opponents, the powerful owners: how John Montgomery Ward led the Players League Rebellion of 1890; the rise and fall of David Fultz and the Baseball Players Fraternity (1912 18); the iron-fisted regime of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis; the case of Danny Gardella vs. Happy Chandler and the...