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Praise for A BROOKLYN DODGERS READER Edited by Andrew Paul Mele
Forward by Carl Erskine .."..should become one of the standard
histories of the irrepressible Dodgers." - Donald Honig "One of the
finest collections of baseball writings ever assembled." - Tom
Knight Brooklyn Baseball Historian " It's all there, told in the
words of Red Smith, Jimmy Canon, and W. C. Heinz, guys who would be
worth reading if they were writing about lawn care." - Jay Price
Staten Island Advance
At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Italian
immigrants left their home country for the United States and,
particularly, New York City. A small minority of the immigrants
were members of a criminal syndicate that largely victimized fellow
immigrants. The most common crime was a type of extortion known as
"Black Hand." The methods of extortion were particularly violent,
and included kidnapping, arson, and murder. The New York Police
Department, unable to speak the language and unaware of the
traditions of the immigrants, was virtually helpless in dealing
with them. In 1904, Italian-American Lt. Detective Joseph Petrosino
formed a group of Italian detectives to deal exclusively with the
extortion crimes and the criminal underworld of Italian society in
New York which had become known in the American press as "The Black
Hand Society." This book tells the story of The Italian Squad from
its inception, through Petrisnio's death, to the squad's expansion
into Queens and Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Dodgers are one of the most popular and most beloved
baseball teams of all time. This book is a collection of writings
about the Dodgers, arranged chronologically to give the readers a
sense of the team's long history. Included are news reports,
articles and excerpts from both fiction and non-fiction works,
written by some of the best baseball writers of the past sixty
years. Among them are James L. Terry (excerpted from Long Before
the Dodgers); John Lardner (""The Unbelievable Babe Herman""); Red
Barber and Robert Creamer (excerpted from Rhubarb in the Catbird
Seat); Harold Parrott (excerpted from The Lords of Baseball and
""Owen Drops Third Strike""); Robin Roberts and C. Paul Rogers, III
(excerpted from My Life in Baseball); Red Smith (""Erskine Fans 14
Yanks,"" ""Over the River"" and ""Last Chapter"").
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