Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman by Lee Lowenfish

“The book title captures the complexity of the man who ‘made a spark that helped shape three cultures—black, white and American.’ Rickey III attended a book signing and lecture by Lee Lowenfish at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Lowenfish wrote the latest book about baseball’s integration pioneer. Rickey III calls it the best of three books about his grandfather, who as an executive with the Dodgers brought Jackie Robinson to the Major Leagues in 1947. ‘It’s a more comprehensive character study with the benefit of insight, the distillation of time, events and history’ grandson Branch Rickey III said.”—Max Utsler, MLB.com

View a complete listing of praise for Branch Rickey at http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2007/02/praise_for_bran.html.