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Leo Durocher

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Books

Barber, Red. 1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball. New York: Chelsea House, 1991.

Bouton, Jim with Neil Offen. I Managed Good, But Boy Did They Play Bad. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1973.

Chandler, Albert B. with Vance H. Trimble. Heroes, Plain Folks, and Skunks: The Life and Times of Happy Chandler. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1989.

Claerbaut, David. Durocher's Cubs: The Greatest Team That Didn't Win. Dallas: Taylor, 2000.

Cohen, Stanley. Dodgers! The First One-Hundred Years. New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990.

Dewey, Donald, and Nicholas Acocella. Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Teams. New York: Harper-Collins, 1993.

Eskenazi, Gerald. The Lip: A Biography of Leo Durocher. New York: William Morrow, 1993.

Frommer, Harvey. Baseball's Greatest Managers. New York: Chelsea House, 1991.

Gold, Eddie, and Art Ahrens. The New Era Cubs, 1941-1985. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1985.

Holmes, Tommy. The Dodgers. New York: Macmillan, 1975.

Kahn, Roger. The Era, 1947-1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993.

Kelley, Brent. The Case For: Those Overlooked by the Baseball Hall of Fame. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland, 1992.

Keyes, Ralph. "Nice Guys Finish Seventh": False Phrases, Spurious Sayings and Familiar Misquotations. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Koppett, Leonard. The Man in the Dugout: Baseball's Top Managers and How They Got That Way. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.

Powers, Jimmy. Baseball Personalities. New York: Rudolph Field, 1949.

Prince, Carl E. Brooklyn's Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Periodicals

Anderson, Dave. "Leo the Lip Was Baseball in New York."New York Times (October 9, 1991): B11.

Prager, Joshua Harris. "Giants' 1951 Comeback, the Sport's Greatest, Wasn't All It Seemed."Wall Street Journal (January 31, 2001): A1, A14.

Rogers, Thomas. "Leo Durocher, Fiery Ex-Manager, Dies at 86."New York Times (October 8, 1991): D25.

Other

"Baseball Library.com: Leo Durocher." http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/D/Durocher_Leo.stm (November 29, 2002).

"The BASEBALL page.com: Leo Durocher." http://www.thebaseballpage.com/past/pp/durocherleo/default.htm (November 29, 2002).

"National Baseball Hall of Fame: Leo Durocher." http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/durocher_leo.htm (November 29, 2002).



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