You Can't Hit the Ball with the Bat on Your Should: The Baseball Life and Times of Bobby Bragan

I found this to be a very entertaining book on Bobby Bragan's experiences in both minor and major league baseball. What I especially enjoyed were the numerous anecdotes of the managers, owners, and players he encountered during his career. Bobby gives his opinions on managers such as Leo Durocher, Charley Dressen, Burt Shotten, Casey Stengel, and numerous others. In Bobby's opinion he rates Leo as the best of all. I was especially interested in his opinions of the Milwaukee Braves of the mid-1960s when Bobby was at the helm prior to their move to Atlanta. He rates Hank Aaron as an absolute gentleman whereas he found an over-the-hill Warren Spahn reluctant to share any wisdom to other pitchers in fear of one of them taking his job. Spahn began the 1965 season with the Mets and was later sold during that season to the San Francisco Giants. Eddie Matthews played hard but had a problem with alcohol to such an extent that Bragan felt he was an alcoholic. Rico Carty was somewhat of a head case who never got the best out of his ability.Bobby Bragan was a disciple of Branch Rickey and it was Mr. Rickey who taught the Alabama-born Bragan to become a man in his acceptance of African-American players beginning with Jackie Robinson.If you are interested in baseball history you can learn a lot from Bobby Bragan. You need not necessarily learn from a super-star to appreciate the game's glorious history. This book is still available from Amazon and I would encourage you to add this to your library.

would recomment this as a good read to everyone., I read cover to cover and did not put it down. Thank you for the prompt service. Good job.