Durocher, Leo <br/><br/>
Nice guys finish last  [electronic resource] / 
by Leo Durocher ; with Ed Linn 
 - University of Chicago Press ed. 
 - Chicago :  University Of Chicago Press,  c2009 
 - 1 online resource (448 p.) 
<br/><br/> Includes index  Description based on print version record 
<br/><br/>Book 1. The good old days ; I come to kill you ; The drummer boy ; Strong minds and weak backs ; "What if it doesn't rain?" ; The Gas House Gang ; The manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers ; The first pennant in 21 years ; The second guess--the great national pastime ; The ballad of Van Lingle Mungo ; I once won an argument with an umpire -- Book 2. The days of trial and glory ; Jackie ; Mr. Rickey ; A night flight to Columbus ; A hamfat politician named Happy ; Hello Horace, goodbye Ebbets Field ; My kind of team ; How to become a miracle manager ; The eye-talian street singer and a couple of other heavy hitters -- Book 3. The new breed ; How I didn't become manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, etcetera ; Something good is going to happen tomorrow ; Mister Cub ; The Santo explosion ; It can't be happening to me again ; The diminishing manager ; Whatever happened to sit down, shut up and listen? 
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<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access : Internet 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226173894 (electronic bk.) 0226173895 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Baseball managers--United States--Biography<br/>Baseball--History--United States