Nice Guys Finish Last

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 result is baseball at its best.

Leo Durocher (1905–91) spent nearly fifty years in the major leagues as a player and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994. Ed Linn (1922–2000) was the author of seventeen books, including Veeck--As in Wreck.

The Good Old Days
I Come to Kill You	p. 11
The Drummer Boy	p. 27
Strong Minds and Weak Backs	p. 44
"What If It Doesn't Rain?"	p. 64
The Gas House Gang	p. 81
The Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers	p. 116
The First Pennant in 21 Years	p. 138
The Second Guess-the Great National Pastime	p. 158
The Ballad of Van Lingle Mungo	p. 165
I Once Won an Argument with an Umpire	p. 180
The Days of Trial and Glory
Jackie	p. 203
Mr. Rickey	p. 213
A Night Flight to Columbus	p. 225
A Hamfat Politician Named Happy	p. 236
Hello Horace, Goodbye Ebbets Field	p. 269
My Kind of Team	p. 287
How to Become a Miracle Manager	p. 299
The Eye-talian Street Singer and a Couple of Other Heavy Hitters	p. 324
The New Breed
How I Didn't Become Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, Etcetera	p. 335
Something Good Is Going to Happen Tomorrow	p. 348
Mister Cub	p. 362
The Santo Explosion	p. 375
It Can't Be Happening to Me Again	p. 394
The Diminishing Manager	p. 410
Whatever Happened to Sit Down, Shut Up and Listen?	p. 425
Index	p. 439
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