Nice guys finish last
"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo "the Lip" Durocher. Following a f...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
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2009.
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| Edition: | University of Chicago Press ed. |
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess MyiLibrary |
| Summary: | "I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo "the Lip" Durocher. Following a five-decade career as a player and manager for baseball's most storied franchises, Durocher teamed up with veteran sportswriter Ed Linn to tell the story of his life in the game. The resulting book, Nice Guys Finish Last, is baseball at its best, brimming with personality and full of all the fights and feuds, triumphs and tr. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780226173894 (electronic bk.) 0226173895 (electronic bk.) |