From Publishers Weekly
Yet another reminder that the Brooklyn Dodgers still live,though not in Brooklyn, this carefully researched history of the teamby a New York Times sports editor is one of the best. Books aroundabout the "Daffiness Boys" of the 1920s, "Dem Bums" of the 1930s andthe 1950s' "Boys of Summer"--and Goldstein ably surveys the stories ofthose teams. Where he excels, however, is in recounting the earlyyears of the diamond sport in the City of Churches, and all thefranchises born and done in during pre-Dodger days--the Eckfords, theExcelsiors, the Atlantics, the Mutuals, the Mets, the Brooklyns andthe Bridegrooms, among them. This should be required reading for allfans still cursing Walter O'Malley for moving the beloved team west in1957. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
From 1857, when Brooklyn was an independent city, baseball thrived until the Dodgers and Giants fled West in 1957. Goldstein, a New York Times sports editor, provides a nostalgic story of glory and pathos. Beginning with the deeds of Brooklyn's pre-major league teams, he chronicles Brooklyn baseball from the Trolley Dodgers, Bridegrooms, and Robins to the Daffiness Boys and latter-day Dodgers. He repeats oft-told tales of Wilbert "Uncle Robby" Robinson, Casey Stengel, Babe Herman, Roger Kahn's Boys of Summer ( LJ 2/15/72), Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson, and even the still hated Walter O'Malley. This fond memorial gives fuller coverage to the Brooklyn years than Stanley Cohen's The Dodgers: The First 100 Years ( LJ 4/15/90) and is recommended. It will be especially popular with New York area fans.--Morey Berger, formerly with Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N . J. up at bat, Morey Berger: Watch for LJ' s spring lineup of baseball books, reviewed by longtime LJ reviewer Berger, in the Sports section this February 15.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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