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York City Baseball "We shall not have such an era again except in such loving books as this one."—Red Barber What a time! In the heady days after World
War II, a nation was ready for heroes and a great city was eager
for entertainment. Baseball provided the heroes, and the Yankees,
the Giants, and the Dodgers—with their rivalries, their
successes, their stars—provided the show. Frommer chronicles
how in those eleven remarkable years Casey Stengel and his Bronx
Bombers went to the World Series seven times; Joltin' Joe DiMaggio
stepped gracefully aside to make room for a young slugger named
Mickey Mantle; and the Brooklyn (but not for much longer) Dodgers
achieved the impossible by beating the Yankees in the 1955 World
Series. Includes rare interviews with Monte Irvin, Rachel Robinson
(Jackie's widow), Mel Allen, Duke Snider, Eddie Lopat, Phil Rizzuto,
Jerry Coleman, and New York media figures. Harvey Frommer, a well-known sports historian, is the author of thirty-four sports books. |
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