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Through
a Blue Lens: The Brooklyn Dodger Photographs of Barney Stein, 1939-1957
by Dennis D'Agostino, Bonnie Crosby
Hardcover from Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN: 1572439521
As one of New York's legendary news photographers, Barney Stein covered
everything from popes to presidents, from gangsters to glamour girls. But
no job brought him more joy and fame than as the official team photographer
for the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers. For two decades, his camera captured
the Dodgers in all their glory, both on and off the field. Now, to celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the Dodgers' last season in Brooklyn, Barney Stein's
photos live again. |
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Bums:
An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
by Peter Golenbock
Paperback from Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486477355
It's been over 50 years since
they moved to Los Angeles, but the Brooklyn Dodgers remain ingrained in
the fabric of our national pastime. Golenbock's oral history of these "lovable
losers" tells the team's tale through the words of Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher,
Duke Snider, and other Brooklyn greats. |
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The
Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers
by Robert M. McGee
Paperback from Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813536014
Generations after its demise, Ebbets Field remains the single most
colorful and enduring image of a baseball park, with a treasured niche
in the game's legacy and the American imagination.
In this lively story of sports, politics, and the talented, hilarious,
and charming characters associated with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Bob McGee
chronicles the ballpark's vibrant history from the drawing board to the
wrecking ball, beginning with Charley Ebbets and the heralded opening in
1913, on through the eras that followed. McGee weaves a story about how
Ebbets Field's architectural details, notable flaws, and striking facade
brought Brooklyn and its team together in ways that allowed each to define
the other.
Drawing on original interviews and letters, as well as published and
archival sources, The Greatest Ballpark Ever explores the struggle of Charley
Ebbets to build Ebbets Field, the days of Wilbert Robinson's early pennant
winners, the eras of the Daffiness Boys, Larry MacPhail, and Branch Rickey,
the tumultuous field leadership of Leo the Lip, the fiery triumph of Jackie
Robinson, the golden days of the Boys of Summer, and Walter O'Malley's
ignominious departure.
With humor and passion, The Greatest Ballpark Ever lets readers relive
a day in the raucous ballpark with its quirky angles and its bent right-field
wall, with the characters and events that have become part of the nation's
folklore. |
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Bums
No More!: The Championship Season of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers
by Stewart Wolpin
Paperback from St Martins Pr
ISBN: 0312150725
In all of sports history, there has rarely been a bond like the one
that linked the Brooklyn Dodgers with their fans. Bums No More! is a brilliant
account of the Dodgers' World Series victory--the year they finally beat
the Yankees. More than a baseball book, in this nostalgic tribute for Brooklynites
and baseball fans everywhere, over 125 photos capture the camaraderie and
fervor of an entire borough. |
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Brooklyn's
Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957
by Carl E. Prince
Paperback from Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195115783
During the 1952 World Series, a Yankee fan trying to watch the game
in a Brooklyn bar was told, "Why don't you go back where you belong, Yankee
lover?" "I got a right to cheer my team," the intruder responded, "this
is a free country." "This ain't no free country, chum," countered the Dodger
fan, "this is Brooklyn." Brooklynites loved their "Bums"--Pee Wee Reese,
Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, and all the murderous parade
of regulars who, after years of struggle, finally won the World Series
in 1955. One could not live in Brooklyn and not catch its spirit of devotion
to its baseball club.
In Brooklyn's Dodgers, Carl E. Prince captures the intensity
and depth of the team's relationship to the community and its people in
the 1950s. Ethnic and racial tensions were part and parcel of a working
class borough; the Dodgers' presence smoothed the rough edges of the ghetto
conflict always present in the life of Brooklyn. The Dodger-inspired baseball
program at the fabled Parade Grounds provided a path for boys that occasionally
led to the prestigious "Dodger Rookie Team," and sometimes, via minor league
contracts, to Ebbets Field itself. There were the boys who lined Bedford
Avenue on game days hoping to retrieve home run balls and the men in the
many bars who were not only devoted fans but collectively the keepers of
the Dodger past--as were Brooklyn women, and in numbers. Indeed, women
were tied to the Dodgers no less than their husbands, fathers, brothers,
and sons; they were only less visible. A few, like Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet Marianne Moore and working class stiff Hilda Chester were regulars
at Ebbets Field and far from invisible. Prince also explores the underside
of the Dodgers--the "baseball Annies," and the paternity suits that went
with the territory. The Dodgers' male culture was played out as well in
the team's politics, in the owners' manipulation of Dodger male egos, opponents'
race-baiting, and the macho bravado of the team (how Jackie Robinson, for
instance, would prod Giants' catcher Sal Yvars to impotent rage by signaling
him when he was going to steal second base, then taunting him from second
after the steal).
The day in 1957 when Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
announced that the team would be leaving for Los Angeles was one of the
worst moments in baseball history, and a sad day in Brooklyn's history
as well. The Dodger team was, to a degree unmatched in other major league
cities, deeply enmeshed in the life and psyche of Brooklyn and its people.
In this superb volume, Carl Prince illuminates this "Brooklyn" in the golden
years after the Second World War.
This slim, illustrated volume makes a fascinating attempt at capturing
in theoretical, sociological terms the love affair between the Dodgers--the
team of Branch Rickey and Duke Snider, of Pee Wee Reese and, above all,
Jackie Robinson--and the homely, family-oriented, working-class
borough of Brooklyn in the 1950s. Robinson, a complex and courageous man,
is captured here, warts and all; few remember that the gifted ballplayer
denounced the great actor Paul Robeson to the House Un-American Activities
Committee. But it's the glory of those summer days that lingers in the
memories, and in the pages of this book. |
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After
Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in
New York Baseball
by Robert E. Murphy
Hardcover from Union Square Press
For New Yorkers especially Brooklynites
1957 will always be the year that lives in infamy. It was when the Brooklyn
Dodgers and the New York Giants delivered a one-two punch to the city by
both abandoning their hometown for California. Millions of bereft and angry
baseball fans wondered how such a thing could be allowed to happen: Who
was to blame? After poring relentlessly through archives, original
news stories, and government documents, Robert Murphy gives the most fully-researched
answer to that question yet offered. Packed with history, rich in baseball
lore and legend, this is a book that any New York history buff and all
lovers of America's national pastime will relish.
AFTER MANY A SUMMER reveals:
How baseball commissioner Ford Frick helped
facilitate the teams' move to California
Which plan for a new stadium would have
appeased Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley and saved Brooklyn baseball
How Robert Moses, who has received much
blame, actually tried to solve the problem
How O'Malley and Giants owner Horace Stoneham
worked in tandem to make sure their popular rivalry would continue in LA
How the two owners managed to carry out
secret talks with California officials even while insisting they had no
plans to leave New York |
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Forever
Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial
Owner, and theDodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
by Michael D'Antonio
Paperback from Riverhead Trade
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a revealing biography
of "one of the most polarizing figures in baseball history" (The New
York Times).
If ever there was a figure who changed the game of baseball, it was
Walter O'Malley. Criticized in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, O'Malley
was one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports,
altering the course of history when he uprooted the Dodgers and transplanted
them to Los Angeles. While many critics attacked him, O'Malley looked to
the future, declining to defend his stance. As a result, fans across the
nation have never been able to stop arguing about him and his strategy-until
now. Forever Blue is a uniquely intimate portrait of a man who changed
America's pastime forever, a fascinating story fundamental to the history
of sports, business, and the American West. |
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The
Era, 1947-1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the
World
by Roger Kahn
Paperback from Bison Books
ISBN: 0803278055
Celebrated sports writer Roger
Kahn casts his gaze on the golden age of baseball, an unforgettable time
when the game thrived as America's unrivaled national sport. The Era
begins in 1947 with Jackie Robinson changing major league baseball forever
by taking the field for the Dodgers. Dazzling, momentous events characterize
the decade that followed-Robinson's amazing accomplishments; the explosion
on the national scene of such soon-to-be legends as Mickey Mantle, Willie
Mays, Bobby Thomson, Duke Snider, and Yogi Berra; Casey Stengel's crafty
managing; the emergence of televised games; and the stunning success of
the Yankees as they play in nine out of eleven World Series. The Era
concludes with the relocation of the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles,
a move that shook the sport to its very roots. |
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The
Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together
by Michael Shapiro
Paperback from Broadway
Media Published: 2004-
ISBN: 0767906888
In the bestselling tradition of The Boys of Summer and Wait
'Til Next Year, The Last Good Season is the poignant and dramatic
story of the Brooklyn Dodgers' last pennant and the forces that led to
their heartbreaking departure to Los Angeles.
The 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers were one of baseball's most storied teams,
featuring such immortals as Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider,
Gil Hodges, and Roy Campanella. The love between team and borough was equally
storied, an iron bond of loyalty forged through years of adversity and
sometimes legendary ineptitude. Coming off their first World Series triumph
ever in 1955, against the hated Yankees, the Dodgers would defend their
crown against the Milwaukee Braves and the Cincinnati Reds in a six-month
neck-and-neck contest until the last day of the playoffs, one of the most
thrilling pennant races in history.
But as The Last Good Season so richly relates, all was not well
under the surface. The Dodgers were an aging team at the tail end of its
greatness, and Brooklyn was a place caught up in rapid and profound urban
change. From a cradle of white ethnicity, it was being transformed into
a racial patchwork, including Puerto Ricans and blacks from the South who
flocked to Ebbets Field to watch the Dodgers' black stars. The institutions
that defined the borough - the Brooklyn Eagle, the Brooklyn Navy Yard -
had vanished, and only the Dodgers remained. And when their shrewd, dollar-squeezing
owner, Walter O'Malley, began casting his eyes elsewhere in the absence
of any viable plan to replace the aging Ebbets Field and any support from
the all-powerful urban czar Robert Moses, the days of the Dodgers in Brooklyn
were clearly numbered.
Michael Shapiro, a Brooklyn native, has interviewed many of the surviving
participants and observers of the 1956 season, and undertaken immense archival
research to bring its public and hidden drama to life. Like David Halberstam's
The Summer of '49, The Last Good Season combines an exciting
baseball story, a genuine sense of nostalgia, and hard-nosed reporting
and social thinking to reveal, in a new light, a time and place we only
thought we understood.
From the Hardcover edition. |
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Brooklyn
Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive, 1957
by John R. Nordell Jr.
Kindle Edition from Tribute Books
Media Published: 2007-
"No baseball summer is as memorable for me as that July when the Dodgers
began a winning streak in a suddenly torrid, topsy-turvy National League
pennant race."
Fifty years after they played their last baseball game, the Brooklyn
Dodgers are still remembered by millions of people. From 1947 to 1956 the
Dodgers captured six out of ten National League pennants and they defeated
the mighty New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series. The year 1957, however,
is recalled mainly for the decision by Dodger president Walter O'Malley
to move his team to Los Angeles the following year.
Author John Nordell tells the story of the Dodgers' mid-season surge
in the standings during that last year in Brooklyn. Using research from
a variety of sources, Nordell recreates the excitement of following the
Dodgers and their National League rivals in the daily drama of a five-team
pennant race. The author also draws on his own youthful memories of that
year and describes the unforgettable thrill of seeing a game at Ebbets
Field.
"No baseball summer is as memorable for me as that July when the Dodgers
began a winning streak in a suddenly torrid, topsy-turvy National League
pennant race."
Fifty years after they played their last baseball game, the Brooklyn
Dodgers are still remembered by millions of people. From 1947 to 1956 the
Dodgers captured six out of ten National League pennants and they defeated
the mighty New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series. The year 1957, however,
is recalled mainly for the decision by Dodger president Walter O'Malley
to move his team to Los Angeles the following year.
Author John Nordell tells the story of the Dodgers' mid-season surge
in the standings during that last year in Brooklyn. Using research from
a variety of sources, Nordell recreates the excitement of following the
Dodgers and their National League rivals in the daily drama of a five-team
pennant race. The author also draws on his own youthful memories of that
year and describes the unforgettable thrill of seeing a game at Ebbets
Field. |
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The
Dodgers - Giants Rivalry 1900 - 1957
by Marvin A. Cohen
(Paperback)
The
Dodgers Encyclopedia
by William F. McNeil, Bill McNeil
(Hardcover)
The
Brooklyn Dodgers (Images of Sports)
by Mark Rucker
(Paperback)
Bums:
An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
by Peter Golenbock
Book Description: Before the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957,
the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in
baseball. In Bums, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has compiled a fascinating
oral history of the Ebbets Field heroes with recollections from former
players, writers, front-office executives, and faithful fans. Dodgers legends
such as Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Ralph
Branca, and many others recall the ups and downs of that unforgettable
ball club in their own words.Among his many books are Dynasty, the definitive
history of the 1949-1964 New York Yankees (also available from Contemporary
Books); Wild, High, and Tight, his revealing biography of Yankees manager
Billy Martin; and Wrigleyville, an oral history of the Chicago Cubs. He
has been a frequent guest on many television shows, including A&E's
Biography, ESPN's 50 Greatest Athletes, and Larry King Live. He lives in
Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Paperback: 528 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.46 x
9.01 x 5.96
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books; (May 1, )
ISBN: 0809223953
Brooklyn's
Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957
by Carl E. Prince
(Paperback)
The
Brooklyn Dodgers: An Informal History
by Frank Graham, Jack Lang
First published in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Putnam series of team
histories, Frank Graham’s colorful chronicle presents the Brooklyn Dodgers
in “all their glory and all their daffiness” from the team’s beginnings
as the Atlantics in 1883 through 1943, with a short summary of the 1944
season.
In his foreword, Hall of Fame sports writer Jack Lang writes that “in
an era that produced for New York sports fans such outstanding sportswriters
as Grantland Rice, Sid Mercer, Bill Slocum, Bob Considine, and Tommy Holmes,
one of the very best was Frank Graham, whose columns appeared in the New
York Sun and later the Journal-American.”
Graham covers every aspect of the Dodgers—games, fans, players, managers,
executives. And these Dodgers produced their share of legends: Wee Willie
Keeler, Mickey Owen, Dazzy Vance, Babe Herman, Charles H. Ebbets, Wilbert
Robinson, Charles Byrne, Casey Stengel, Leo Durocher, Zack Wheat, Burleigh
Grimes, Steve McKeever, Ed McKeever, Larry MacPhail, Max Carey, Dixie Walker,
Branch Rickey, Dolph Camilli, Hugh Casey, Nap Rucker, Van Lingle Mungo,
and the voice of the Dodgers, Red Barber.
Dealing with the various executives, Graham notes that in the beginning,
Charles Ebbets did everything from selling tickets and scorecards to helping
out in the front office. In the 1930s, the inept Dodgers provoked laughter
until Larry MacPhail moved from Cincinnati to Brooklyn in 1938; one year
later, the Dodgers were contenders. When MacPhail departed for the Army
after the 1942 season, Branch Rickey succeeded him. Rickey’s scouts signed
every youngster who could hit, run, or throw, even though many of them
were headed for the war. “When they came back in 1946,” Lang explains,
“Rickey had cornered the market on the nation’s young talent—more than
six hundred ballplayers.”
This history of the Brooklyn Dodgers contains eighteen black-and-white
illustrations.
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press; 1st edition
(April 1, )
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080932413X
The
Dodgers: Memories and Memorabilia from Brooklyn to L.A.
by Bruce Chadwick, David M. Spindel (Photographer)
(Hardcover - February 1993)
Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait
by Rachel Robinson
Listed under Jackie Robinson
Bums No More!: The Championship Season of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers
by Stewart Wolpin, Elliot Gould (Introduction)
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