This book features an intimate portrait of baseball, friendship, and one man's fight to change the world. In this endearing personal memoir, former Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine takes us back to the giddy postwar heyday of Brooklyn baseball. In a time when the sport was just recovering from the ravages of World War II and when the United States ...
Only eight times in the last 120 years have two teams tied for first place on the final day of the regular season and square off to determine a division or pennant winner in baseball. Supplemented by interviews with major leaguers, this text examines these sudden-death games.
To the baseball fans of today, the name 'Dodgers' is synonymous with Hollywood, the warm California sun, and names like Tommy Lasorda, Kirk Gibson, Steve Garvey, and Orel Hershiser. The Dodgers mean much more than that to the fans of baseball history, however. Namely, these fans remember the famed "Boys of Summer." otherwise known as the Brooklyn ...
Major league baseball has a long, rich history in Brooklyn. From 1883 until their move west to Los Angeles following the 1957 season, the Dodgers were the emotional center of the borough's diverse population. But Brooklyn would be without a professional team until June of 2000 when the Cyclones took the field at Prospect Park, just blocks from ...
The Brooklyn Dodgers are one of the most popular and most beloved baseball teams of all time. This book is a collection of essays about the Dodgers, arranged chronologically to give the readers a sense of the team's long history. The essays are a combination of news reports, articles and excerpts from both fiction and non-fiction works, written by ...
In this book of baseball anecdotes, a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers recalls the players and coaches he knew during the '50s when his teammates included Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson.
Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the "feel good" movie genre now known as populism, which celebrates people, families, second chances, and other traditional American icons such as small town or pastoral life and baseball. Capra developed his own brand of populism by interweaving traditional values of the genre with a ...
The famed Boys of Summer -- a.k.a. the Brooklyn Dodgers -- were some of baseball's best and funniest players. The group included Hall of Famers Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, and Jackie Robinson, the game's first black player. For the first time, Carl Erskine, another member of that legendary team, relates memories about ...
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