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Posted: May 12th, 2009 | Author: mshapiro | Filed under: Reviews | No Comments »

Interesting book released today from Michael Shapiro, a baseball historian who has written about, among other things, the Brooklyn Dodgers in the past. “Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself” is about Rickey’s vision for how to “save” baseball, largely through the creation of a third major league, the Continental League.

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