After Many a Summer

The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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By the mid-1950s, New York had been the unrivaled capital of America's national pastime for a century, a place where baseball was followed with truly fanatical fervor. The city's three teams—the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers—had over the previous decade rewarded their fans' devotion with stellar performances: from 1947 to 1957, one or more of these teams had played in the World Series every year but one. Yet on opening day 1958, the Giants and the Dodgers were gone. Their owners, Walter O'Malley and Horace Stoneham, had ripped them away from their longtime home and from the hearts of millions of devoted and passionate fans and taken the teams to California. How did it happen? Who was to blame? The relocation of the Giants and the Dodgers, an event that transcended sports and altered the landscape of New York City, has never been addressed with the depth, detail, and insight offered here by Robert E. Murphy. As informed as it is entertaining, After Many a Summer is rich in baseball lore, civic history, and the wheeling and dealing, alliances and betrayals, and sharp-elbowed machinations of big-city business and politics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-03-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:440
Förlag:University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:9780803245730

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Robert E. Murphy lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has been a senior writer for The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, and his books have focused on New York City history. His articles have appeared in the Village Voice, the New York Times, Brooklyn Magazine, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications.

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IntroductionPart I. Looking Backward, 1957-1845Where Baseball Came FromThe Teams, the BallparksBrooklyn: We Simply Live HereStoneham and O'Malley: Sinful FathersStoneham and O'Malley: Favored SonsCitizen McLaughlin and Commissioner MosesPart II. Into the 1950sGold and TarnishMid-Century Movement: Veeck--as in Veeck--as in VeeckRumblings in New YorkThe Man in the MiddleInching Westward?A Stadium on StiltsAtlantic and Flatbush, ContinuedPart III. 1957New York 1957O'Malley in WinterBuying in Los Angeles, Looking All AroundOpening DayA Trip to Flushing MeadowThe Harlem and the MississippiEnter Mayor ChristopherGoing? Where?In and Out of the RaceIn CongressA New Idea for Flushing MeadowThe New York Giants--1883-1957Voices in the TwilightSummer's EndPafko at the WallObitTill the Last Man Is OutAftermath: Sunshine and ShadowAcknowledgmentsA Note on SourcesBibliographyNotesIndex