Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman
by Lee Lowenfish

“Lowenfish delves into more than just Rickey’s connection to the two signature moments of the formation of the minor league farm system and the breaking of baseball’s color barrier. . . . [He includes] Rickey’s playing days and time as a manager through his tenure as a baseball executive.”—Yankees Magazine

Read earlier praise for Branch Rickey at http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2007/02/praise_for_bran.html