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Jimmy Breslin

Biography

Jimmy Breslin

Jimmy Breslin

Books by Jimmy Breslin

by Jimmy Breslin - Biography, Nonfiction

In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues. Rickey's is the classic American tale of a poor boy from Ohio whose faith and dogged work ethic took him to the pinnacle of success.