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Language: en
Pages: 216
Pages: 216
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-16 - Publisher: McFarland
This work, which picks up where the author's previous book, The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s (McFarland, 2005), left off, covers the Dodgers' final eight years
Language: en
Pages: 225
Pages: 225
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-04-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
During the 1952 World Series, a Yankee fan trying to watch the game in a Brooklyn bar was told, "Why don't you go back where you belong, Yankee lover?" "I got a
Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
The Brooklyn Dodgers held spring training in Havana in 1947 so Jackie Robinson could practice safely. Yet that was hardly the beginning: the Bums played in Cuba
Language: en
Pages: 355
Pages: 355
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-22 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Generations after its demise, Ebbets Field remains the single most colorful and enduring image of a baseball park, with a treasured niche in the game's legacy a
Language: en
Pages: 562
Pages: 562
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation
It's been over 50 years since they moved to Los Angeles, but the Brooklyn Dodgers remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. Golenbock's oral histo