A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader [Hardcover]

Andrew Paul Mele (Author), Carl Erskine (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2005

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").

Editorial Reviews

Review

"highly recommend" --SABR Review

"marvelous...a grand reader...extensive index...a book worth having" --Spitball

"one of the finest collections of baseball writings ever assembled...wonderful history of baseball" --Brooklyn Spectator --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Andrew Paul Mele is retired from the Brooklyn Public Library. He lives in Staten Island, New York.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 273 pages
• Publisher: McFarland & Company (January 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078641913X
• ISBN-13: 978-0786419135
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,927,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Dem Bums" of Brooklyn, March 27, 2005

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This review is from: A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader (Hardcover)

this book is a marvelous collection of material about the old Brooklyn Dodgers. It reads like a history from the mid-19th century up until the time that Walter O'Malley took the team away from their fans to LA. It touches on every major event in the team's history; and there are many. Jackie Robinson's historic entry into the major leagues is covered from every angle. The one and only World Series in Brooklyn and the lamentable exodus as well as the great rivalry with the New York Giants are explored. Writers like Kahn and Honig make the reading tops.