New York City Baseball : The Last Golden Age, 1947-1957

by Frommer, Harvey

• ISBN13: 9780299196943
• ISBN10: 0299196941
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

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 Dodgerswith their rivalries, their successes, their starsprovided the show. In those ten 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 the1955 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.

Author Biography

Harvey Frommer, a well-known sports historian, is the author of 34 sports books, including The New York Yankee Encyclopedia, Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball, and Growing Up Baseball with Frederic J. Frommer. His latest, A Yankee Century, was just published by Berkley. He lives in  New Hampshire and teaches at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Move	p. 1
The Times	p. 28
The Pioneers	p. 52
The Giants	p. 80
The Dodgers	p. 97
The Yankees	p. 126
The Rivalry	p. 149
Afterwards	p. 197
New York Giants	p. 203
Brooklyn Dodgers	p. 208
New York Yankees	p. 212
Miscellaneous Statistics	p. 217
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