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After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball
For New Yorkers
Hardcover, 432 pages
Published
May 5th 2009
by Union Square Press
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The departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers at the end of the 1957 season has become one of the most infamous moments in baseball history, largely overshadowing the near-simultaneous departure of the New York Giants for San Francisco. Murphy looks back at both situations, looking to break past the myths that have accumulated over the last half-century. (In other words, Walter O'Malley isn't evil incarnate, and neither is Robert Moses. Then again, neither of them come out of this smelling much like a r...more
The book was extremely informative about the departure of both the Giants and the Dodgers from NYC in the autumn of 1957. There was a good balance between the treatment of Horace Stoneham, the Giant's owner, and Walter O'Malley, the Dodger's owner. Robert Moses also received a fair hearing, better than what he received in the book "Forever Blue," which was only about the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles. But as a baseball fan, there was just not enough baseball in this book - for...more
Marvelous...A passionate account of the transfer of the Giants and Dodgers to California.
Simply a great book for anyone interested in matters such as these.
Walter O'Malley was a visionary....but 2011 is not 1958...the demographic he thought would drive white fans away in Brooklyn...working class or poor Hispanics and Blacks living in the Borough...seems to have become the Dodgers fan core in Los Angeles...at least where it comes to Hispanics. The World works in strange ways. Seems Gian...more
Simply a great book for anyone interested in matters such as these.
Walter O'Malley was a visionary....but 2011 is not 1958...the demographic he thought would drive white fans away in Brooklyn...working class or poor Hispanics and Blacks living in the Borough...seems to have become the Dodgers fan core in Los Angeles...at least where it comes to Hispanics. The World works in strange ways. Seems Gian...more
I underestimated how big a role politics were going to take in this book. There was some interesting baseball info about the Dodgers and Giants last year. I especially enjoyed the chapter that focused on Scully's play by play for the Dodgers final home game. I just found a lot of the behind the scenes government stuff a bit boring after awhile. If this could have been 50/50 government and baseball I think I could have lived with it, but this was more like 80/20 government. I guess take that...more
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