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Bottom of the Ninth

Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself

Michael Shapiro

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Recounts how baseball in the late 1950s reached a critical point in the sport's history, as Branch Rickey and Casey Stengel--two larger-than-life figures--each embarked on a quest to reinvent baseball both on and off the field.

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OL14922083W

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Rickey, branch, 1881-1965Stengel, casey, 1891-1975Baseball, historySports, united statesBaseballHistory

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