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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In this nostalgic but often tedious book, Frommer chronicles 11 remarkable years when the Yankees, the Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers won 17 pennants and nine World Series among them. Photos.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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"A most delightful, a most delectable book. -- WOR-Radio, NY
"A terrific book, reads like a Fellini movie." -- WNBC-Radio, NY
"A well-written, tight and amusing chronicle. A fine special study of an era and a phenomenon." -- Library Journal
"A wonderfully written, evocative book." -- Roger Kahn
"An excellent book that brings back the humanness of the Dodgers, the Giants and the Yankees. We shall not have such an era again except in such loving books as this one." -- Red Barber
"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Harvey Frommer's account of it." -- Robert Creamer, Sports Illustrated
"It''ll make you eat your heart out and drown in nostalgia." -- Staten Island Avance
"Memory after memory page after page. I enjoyed it very much." -- Peter Golenbock
"No red-blooded baseball fan will want to be without it. A genuine social history of New York sports in l947 to l957. A compulsively fascinating book." -- Newsday
"Thorough, complete, well-written history." -- Daily Press, Newport News, VA --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"A terrific book, reads like a Fellini movie." -- WNBC-Radio, NY
"A well-written, tight and amusing chronicle. A fine special study of an era and a phenomenon." -- Library Journal
"A wonderfully written, evocative book." -- Roger Kahn
"An excellent book that brings back the humanness of the Dodgers, the Giants and the Yankees. We shall not have such an era again except in such loving books as this one." -- Red Barber
"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Harvey Frommer's account of it." -- Robert Creamer, Sports Illustrated
"It''ll make you eat your heart out and drown in nostalgia." -- Staten Island Avance
"Memory after memory page after page. I enjoyed it very much." -- Peter Golenbock
"No red-blooded baseball fan will want to be without it. A genuine social history of New York sports in l947 to l957. A compulsively fascinating book." -- Newsday
"Thorough, complete, well-written history." -- Daily Press, Newport News, VA --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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On the fifth day of August, 1955, with the Brooklyn Dodgers in first place, fourteen games in the lead and driving to their third pennant in five years, their first world championship, a New York Times front-page story noted that the National League had granted permission for the scheduling of eight Dodger games for 1956 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ebbets Field, New York City, World Series, National League, Jackie Robinson, Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, Los Angeles, Brooklyn Dodgers, American League, Stan Lomax, Sal Maglie, Willie Mays, Casey Stengel, Monte Irvin, Branch Rickey, Eddie Lopat, Pee Wee Reese, Red Barber, Bobby Thomson, Leo Durocher, Red Sox, United States, Jack Lang, San Francisco New!
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On the fifth day of August, 1955, with the Brooklyn Dodgers in first place, fourteen games in the lead and driving to their third pennant in five years, their first world championship, a New York Times front-page story noted that the National League had granted permission for the scheduling of eight Dodger games for 1956 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ebbets Field, New York City, World Series, National League, Jackie Robinson, Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, Los Angeles, Brooklyn Dodgers, American League, Stan Lomax, Sal Maglie, Willie Mays, Casey Stengel, Monte Irvin, Branch Rickey, Eddie Lopat, Pee Wee Reese, Red Barber, Bobby Thomson, Leo Durocher, Red Sox, United States, Jack Lang, San Francisco New!
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- Jackie Robinson (What Was It Like?) by Lawrence Weinberg on 6 pages
- Jackie Robinson (On My Own Biography) by Sally M. Walker on 6 pages
- New York Giants by Julian May on 4 pages
- Jackie Robinson (Black American Series) by Richard Scott on page 34, page 68, and page 115
- Jackie Robinson (Sports Immortals) by William R. Sanford on page 64, and page 79
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- Brooklyn's Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957 by Carl E. Prince in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball, 1903 to 2003 by Henry D. Fetter in Back Matter
- A Lifetime of Yankee Octobers by Sal Maiorana in Back Matter
- Baseball and the Game of Ideas: Essays for the Serious Fan (Sporting Life Series) by Peter C. Bjarkman in Back Matter
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