After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball
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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 ? ?
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:140276068X
ISBN13:9781402760686
Release Date:January 1
Publisher:Union Square Press
Length:418 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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