The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn [Hardcover]

David ritz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 1981

An exhilarating novel about baseball and the friendship of a poor boy and a rich boy who stick together to make an impossible dream come true.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition (April 30, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671253565
• ISBN-13: 978-0671253561
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,906,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great memories, September 14, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn (Hardcover)

I read this book in the galley proof stage. A friend of mine knew the author and told me the book was great. I wasn't from New York and I didn't know much about the Brooklyn Dodgers so I wasn't overly excited. However, one rainy night I picked up the book and I didn't put it down until it was finished.

So many years have passed and I don't remember any of the details, but I do remember the warm and wonderful sentiments I felt when I was reading about the old great Dodger/Yankee rivalry. And, I remember wishing that I could have been there at Ebbets rooting for the Dodgers.

My eight year old son is now fascinated with baseball history.
When we were talking about Jackie Robinson, I remembered the book I had read so long ago and I even remembered the exact title of the book. I just ordered the book for my son to read and I know I'll read it again and again.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you love (fill in the blanks) . . . Search Out This Book!, December 17, 2001

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Paul Dana (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn (Hardcover)

There are countless reasons I'd recommend this book. But first, a note of personal regret: I didn't come across this gem until it found me, one day several years ago, as I was prowling through the "bargain books" bin outside a used bookstore on San Francisco's Valencia Street. Frankly, considering all the re-readings I've subsequently done and hopefully will continue to enjoy long into the future, I'd much rather have bought this novel new. Author David Ritz deserves every last possible cent in royalties.

And now to the merest handful of the reasons I'd recommend this book:

If you love novels in which youthful dreams seem to die, only to be replaced by even better dreams once their dreamers grow big enough to match them . . . Search Out This Book!

If you love a tale with a happy ending which won't leave the bitter taste of saccharin in your mouth, one which you can read time and again with your heart in your throat, a lump as big as Brooklyn itself . . . Search Out This Book!

If you love a book which spans years and is driven by a narrative voice so perfectly rendered that you'd swear you can hear him speaking to you alone, allow me to introduce one Daniel "Squat" Malone, standout catcher at New Utrecht High and onetime future "can't-miss future Dodger Hall-of-Famer," as I urge you to . . . Search Out This Book!

If you love a sense of "what could have happened" or "what should have happened," if you can give yourself over long enough that the improbable becomes at least plausible, and love yourself for doing so . . . Search Out This Book!

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And finally, if you love anything -- anything or anyone at all worth loving -- enough so that your heartstrings can be plucked to a perfect resonance . . . Search Out This Book!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great baseball book, April 20, 2001

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This review is from: The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn (Hardcover)

I am not as huge a baseball fan as I was when I read it as a teenager - hey, who has as much time as he did when he was 16 to read and memorize lineups? Stil, I have read it again, and again. It's not common for me to read books sevreal times. However, the baseball action and also interpersonal stuff is excellent. I didn't know about all the history repeating itself, but there were enough differences to make it sensible, and besides, anyone who knows baseball knows that history does have a way of repeating itself, whether it's a pennant race, an in-game move, or whatever. We need more books about the old time teams in the old style parks. Whether that would make me follow it more , I don't know, but it would make me read more.