If there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball
team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn. The legacy of this
relationship comes down to us in stories of childhoods spent at
Ebbets Field and in the stories of Jackie Robinson and Branch
Rickey, whose courage changed the face of America. Baseball in
Brooklyn goes back to the beginning of the sport, when a young city
embraced a new game and, like missionaries, carried it to the
nation. This book tells the story of that beginning and concludes
with the heart-wrenching move of the franchise to the West Coast
after the 1957 season.
Brooklyn Dodgers carries us from the birth of baseball in the
streets of Brooklyn through the decades in Flatbush when Ebbets
Field was the center of the Brooklyn community. That was a time
when the players lived in the neighborhoods not far from the
ballpark, side by side with their followers. Duke Snider, Pee Wee
Reese, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, and Johnny Podres all make
appearances in this exciting selection of photographs. A large part
of Brooklyn Dodgers is dedicated to those teams of the 1950s and
their irrepressible fans.
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