Customer Review: Bob McGhee's masterful recollection of the greatest ballpark ever---Ebbets Field---is a nostalgic trip down baseball's memory lane. I loved every page & can understand the passion he felt when writing this book & can understand the emotion any fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers felt when reading... more info
Customer Review: A very readable history of the 1957 World Series and the important match-ups that lead to "The Last Great Pennant Drive". Nordell brings back terrific memories recalling the names of players who, to any youth who followed MLB through the 60's, viewed these athletes with a god-like reverence: Snider,... more info
Customer Review: This addition to the considerable literature about the Brooklyn Dodgers of 1947-1957 is by an academic historian who seeks to place the Dodgers within the broader social and political context of the era. The book captures the atmospherics of the time with a mostly credible and readable account of... more info
Customer Review: The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s: How Robinson, MacPhail, Reiser and Rickey Changed Baseball
I bought this book the parts written about John Whitlow Wyatt. I haven't read the entire book yet, but it seems like an excellent book on the Brooklyn Dodgers
Customer Review: Bill Veeck said in one of his books that the Dodgers move to LA was simply a land grab on O'malleys part.Bowie Kuhn said that if he was the Commisioner of Baseball in 1957, he would of ruled against the move to LA, on the grounds that it was not in the best interests of Baseball. Buzzie Bavasi said... more info
Customer Review: I expected THE BROOKLYN DODGERS: IMAGES OF SPORT to be a coffee table- sized edition. It's actually a rather slim trade paperback. Regardless of my deflated expectations, this little book by Mark Rucker is a great addition to any Brooklyn Dodger fan's library. The book is crammed with... more info
Customer Review: I have written about the Dodgers elsewhere. All I have left is a ball signed bt the Duke, a jacket a jersey--number 42, a 1955 Pee Wee Reese Bubble gum card. Apart from that books, tapes and discs. Vin Scully gave me his autobraph but I lost it. I've been tempted to try and call Carl Erskine and the... more info
Customer Review: Very readable and interesting book if you are a Dodger fan! Those of us who can remember that World Series title, have many good memories recalled by reading this book!
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