New York City Baseball The Golden Age, 1947–1957

by Frommer, Harvey

• ISBN13: 9781589798908
• ISBN10: 1589798902
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781589798496
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-11-01
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing

Summary

In the heady days after World War II, the nation was ready for excitement and heroes, and a city—New York—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.

New York City Baseball recaptures the extraordinary decade of 1947–1957, when the three New York teams were the uncrowned kings of the city. In those ten years, Casey Stengel’s 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; Bobby Thomson hit “the shot heard ’round the world”; and the Brooklyn Dodgers achieved the impossible by beating the Yankees in the 1955 World Series. Over the decade, the teams averaged an astounding 90 wins against 63 losses a season, making it, according to The New York Times, “a helluva ten years.”

Including a new introduction to the 2013 edition and rare interviews with Monte Irvin, Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mel Allen, Duke Snider, Eddie Lopat, Phil Rizzuto, and many more, this book is a must-have for those who want to experience baseball’s golden age.

Author Biography

Harvey Frommer is the celebrated author of more than forty-two sports books, including Remembering Yankee Stadium, Remembering Fenway Park,and A Yankee Century. Frommer is a professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

New Introduction to the 2013 Edition

1. The Move
2. The Time
3. The Pioneers
4. The Giants
5. The Dodgers
6. The Yankees
7. The Rivalry
8. Afterwards

Appendix A. New York Giants
Appendix B. Brooklyn Dodgers
Appendix C. New York Yankees
Appendix D. Miscellaneous Statistics