The Era, 1947–1957

Author: Roger Kahn
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1938120485
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
The author of The Boys of Summer explores the golden age of baseball, an unforgettable time when the game thrived as America’s unrivaled national sport. The Era begins in 1947, with Jackie Robinson changing major league baseball forever by taking the field for the Dodgers. Dazzling, momentous events characterize the decade that followed—Robinson’s amazing accomplishments; the explosion on the national scene of such soon-to-be legends as Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Bobby Thomson, Duke Snider, and Yogi Berra; Casey Stengel’s crafty managing; the emergence of televised games; and the stunning success of the Yankees as they play in nine out of eleven World Series. The Era concludes with the relocation of the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, a move that shook the sport to its very roots. “Kahn knows where the bodies are buried and allows his audience a joyous read as he digs them up.”—Publishers Weekly “[Kahn] engagingly captures the flavor of the times by bringing to the fore the defining traits and relationships that added human dimension to the sport.”—Library Journal “Kahn weaves such personal information into his rich descriptions of thrilling regular-season, playoff and World Series games. And in doing so he endows the players, managers and owners with more dynamic dimensions than any baseball writer of his generation. The men in The Era are ballplayers, not deities; and it takes the unerring strength of a straight shooter like Kahn to remind nostalgic baseball fans of that simple fact.”—Chicago Tribune

Brooklyn's Dodgers

Author: Carl E. Prince
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195099273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Carl E. Prince captures the intensity and depth of the baseball team Brooklyn Dodger's relationship to the community and its people in the 1950's. Ethnic and racial tensions in Brooklyn were smoothed by the Dodgers' presence.

Good Enough to Dream

Author: Roger Kahn
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1938120507
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
The true story of a year in the life of the Utica Blue Sox, a minor league baseball team in upstate New York, by the acclaimed author of The Boys of Summer. Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Good Enough to Dream does the same for players whose moment in the sun has not yet arrived. Here, Kahn tells the story of his year as owner of the Class A, very minor league Utica Blue Sox. Most of the Blue Sox never made it to the majors, but they all shared the dream that links the small child in the sandlot with the superstar who has just smacked one out of the stadium. This is a look at the heart of America’s pastime, a game still sweet enough to lure grown men to leagues where first-class transportation was an old school bus and the infield was likely to be the consistency of thick soup. It is a funny and poignant story of one season, and one special team, that will make us hesitate before we ever call anything “bush league” again. Praise for Roger Kahn “As a kid, I loved sports first and writing second, and loved everything Roger Kahn wrote. As an adult, I love writing first and sports second, and love Roger Kahn even more.” —David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize winner “He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen.” —Time “Roger Kahn is the best baseball writer in the business.” —Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books

The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America

Author: Lyle Spatz
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0803239920
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 395

Book Description
Tells the story of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team.

The Glory Days

Author: Museum of the City of New York
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061344052
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
From the 1947 season until the Dodgers and Giants slunk out of town for the Golden State in 1957, the epicenter of the "American Game" was New York City. In every year but one, at least one of the three New York teams played in the World Series. The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957 recreates the way it was and we were, in an era that seems like only yesterday. With contributions from such writers as Kevin Baker, George Vecsey, and Andrew Zimbalist, The Glory Days is a "people's hall of fame" for baseball and New York in those years, a museum of memories. A Knothole Gang membership card, an Ebbets Field usher's pin, a 1948 Joe DiMaggio jersey with a black armband honoring Babe Ruth, the home plate torn from the playing field at the Giants' last game at the Polo Grounds in 1957. . . all of these moments and more are immortalized within these pages. More than 350 dazzling images of the game and its artifacts from the Museum of the City of New York exhibition, The Glory Days, are accompanied by brilliant essays from some of baseball's most renowned writers. Whether it was breaking the color barrier; the question of "Willie, Mickey, or the Duke"; the team rivalries; or the greatest on-field moment in the history of baseball, the "shot heard 'round the world," the glory days of New York baseball were vibrant and alive. Experience the era the way it really was: raucous, hopeful, thrilling, crushing, and above all, glorious.

The Age of Eisenhower

Author: William I. Hitchcock
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451698437
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 895

Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling biography: a “complete and powerful assessment” of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency (Booklist, starred review). Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the 1950s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through civil rights turmoil and Cold War conflicts. This is a portrait of a skilled leader who, despite his conservative inclinations, found a middle path through the bitter partisanship of his era. At home, Eisenhower affirmed the central elements of the New Deal, such as Social Security; fought the demagoguery of Senator Joseph McCarthy; and advanced the agenda of civil rights for African-Americans. Abroad, he ended the Korean War and avoided a new quagmire in Vietnam. Yet he also charted a significant expansion of America’s missile technology and deployed a vast array of covert operations around the world to confront the challenge of communism. As he left office, he cautioned Americans to remain alert to the dangers of a powerful military-industrial complex that could threaten their liberties. Today, presidential historians rank Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, and William Hitchcock’s “rich narrative” shows us why Ike’s stock has risen so high. He was a gifted leader, a decent man of humble origins who used his powers to advance the welfare of all Americans (The Wall Street Journal).

New York City Baseball

Author: Harvey Frommer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781589798908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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."

Baldwin Kingrey

Author: John Brunetti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971840522
Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
History of the retail furniture store, Baldwin Kingrey, founded by Harry Weese, Kitty Baldwin, and Jody Kingrey.

Brooklyn's Dodgers

Author: Carl E. Prince
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190283408
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
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 right to cheer my team," the intruder responded, "this is a free country." "This ain't no free country, chum," countered the Dodger fan, "this is Brooklyn." Brooklynites loved their "Bums"--Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, and all the murderous parade of regulars who, after years of struggle, finally won the World Series in 1955. One could not live in Brooklyn and not catch its spirit of devotion to its baseball club. In Brooklyn's Dodgers, Carl E. Prince captures the intensity and depth of the team's relationship to the community and its people in the 1950s. Ethnic and racial tensions were part and parcel of a working class borough; the Dodgers' presence smoothed the rough edges of the ghetto conflict always present in the life of Brooklyn. The Dodger-inspired baseball program at the fabled Parade Grounds provided a path for boys that occasionally led to the prestigious "Dodger Rookie Team," and sometimes, via minor league contracts, to Ebbets Field itself. There were the boys who lined Bedford Avenue on game days hoping to retrieve home run balls and the men in the many bars who were not only devoted fans but collectively the keepers of the Dodger past--as were Brooklyn women, and in numbers. Indeed, women were tied to the Dodgers no less than their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons; they were only less visible. A few, like Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore and working class stiff Hilda Chester were regulars at Ebbets Field and far from invisible. Prince also explores the underside of the Dodgers--the "baseball Annies," and the paternity suits that went with the territory. The Dodgers' male culture was played out as well in the team's politics, in the owners' manipulation of Dodger male egos, opponents' race-baiting, and the macho bravado of the team (how Jackie Robinson, for instance, would prod Giants' catcher Sal Yvars to impotent rage by signaling him when he was going to steal second base, then taunting him from second after the steal). The day in 1957 when Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, announced that the team would be leaving for Los Angeles was one of the worst moments in baseball history, and a sad day in Brooklyn's history as well. The Dodger team was, to a degree unmatched in other major league cities, deeply enmeshed in the life and psyche of Brooklyn and its people. In this superb volume, Carl Prince illuminates this "Brooklyn" in the golden years after the Second World War.

1947-1957

Author: Audrey Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description