The Last Years of the Brooklyn Dodgers [Paperback]

Rudy Marzano (Author)

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Publication Date: November 5, 2007

This work, which picks up where the author's previous book, The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s (McFarland, 2005), left off, covers the Dodgers' final eight years in Brooklyn. Chapters carry the reader from the 1951 playoffs, when a late season collapse and Thomson's "Shot Heard Round the World" dealt Brooklyn a heartbreaking blow, through the 1955 World Series title, and finally to Walter O'Malley's controversial decision to move the team to Los Angeles. The author covers each season in-depth and assesses popular perceptions of the Dodgers, their players and owners, and considers O'Malley's culpability in the team's departure, which ended a string of 74 years in which Brooklyn had major league baseball.

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About the Author

Rudy Marzano retired from AT&T where he was a press relations manager, writer and editor. He lives in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: McFarland (November 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786430060
• ISBN-13: 978-0786430062
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,710,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This is a well written book describing the final years of the Dodgers in Brooklyn.
Author Marzano is hung up on the idea that Walter O'Malley was moving the team out of Brooklyn the minute he got control of the club.
Why would Walter O'Malley meet Earl Warren, Governor of California, in his private box in Ebbets Field in plain view of everyone in 1953 if this was some sneaky plot to leave?
It would seem that a brazen public meeting like that was done to exert political pressure on the New York pols and Robert Moses to get the land for a ballpark in Brooklyn.
The stories surrounding the baseball club and their 1950s trials and triumph are fantastic from an author-sportswriter who was there.
Enjoyable reading for a genuine baseball fan.

I just visited Shea Stadium for the first time and can completely understand why Walter O'Malley told Robert Moses that he wasn't interested in some City owned white elephant in Queens.