Branch Rickey

9 best books like Branch Rickey (Jimmy Breslin): Arthur Ashe: A Life, Libra, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers, The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories, Life on the Run, Faith: A Journey For All, Body Of Proof, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse, Astroball: The New Way to Win It All

Arthur Ashe: A Life

Author	Raymond Arsenault
ISBN	1439189048

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis—a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.

Born...

Libra

Author	Don DeLillo
ISBN	0140156046

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers

Author

Fred Rogers

The New York Times Best Seller 

For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charmingly illustrated treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults...

The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories

Author	Pete Hamill
ISBN	0316232734

Never before collected in one volume, here are Pete Hamill's stories about Brooklyn, the borough in which he was born and grew up, and the one closest to his heart.

A young boy with a mysterious past forever transforms the lives of the neighborhood toughs. A man returns to his old haunts to avenge...

Life on the Run

Author	Bill Bradley
ISBN	0679762086

Almost two decades after its original publication and more than fifteen years after its author retired from the New York Knicks to become a United States senator, Bill Bradley's account of twenty days in a pro basketball season remains a classic in the literature of sports, unparalleled in its candor...

Faith: A Journey For All

Author	Jimmy Carter
ISBN	1508248974

In this powerful and personal reflection, a New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment and considers how we may find it in our own lives.

All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous exemplar of...

Body Of Proof

Author

Darrell Brown

A woman disappeared. A man was convicted. Case closed?

Body of Proof, a true crime podcast, examines the many unanswered questions surrounding the disappearance and death of Suzanne Pilley in Edinburgh in 2010 and the subsequent conviction of David Gilroy. Journalists and TV producers...

The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

Author	Tom Verducci
ISBN	0804190011

With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become...

Astroball: The New Way to Win It All

Author	Ben Reiter
ISBN	0525576649

When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article's author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more than just bad. They were an embarrassment,...