Brooklyn's Dodgers
The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957
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 i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-028340-7
- EAN: 9780190283407
- Produktnummer: 18398406
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'576 KB
- Abbildungen: 13 halftones
Über den Autor
Carl E. Prince is Professor of History at New York University, and a past chair of the department. A specialist in early American history, he has written several books and many essays on early American political culture. With this book he picks up professionally a subject in which he has had a life-long interest.
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