The Brooklyn Dodgers by Mark Rucker
If there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn. The legacy of this relationship comes down to us in stories of childhoods spent at Ebbets Field and in the stories of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, whose courage changed the face of America. Baseball in Brooklyn goes back to the beginning of the sport, when a young city embraced a new game and, like missionaries, carried it to the nation. This book tells the story of that beginning and concludes with the heart-wrenching move of the franchise to the West Coast after the 1957 season. Brooklyn Dodgers carries us from the birth of baseball in the streets of Brooklyn through the decades in Flatbush when Ebbets Field was the center of the Brooklyn community. That was a time when the players lived in the neighborhoods not far from the ballpark, side by side with their followers. Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, and Johnny Podres all make appearances in this exciting selection of photographs. A large part of Brooklyn Dodgers is dedicated to those teams of the 1950s and their irrepressible fans.
Rucker, Mark: - Mark Rucker is a longtime member of the Society for American Baseball Research. His collection of vintage baseball images, part of the vast Rucker Archives, wonderfully illustrates this volume throughout. He is the author of several previous Images of Baseball titles, including Chicago Aces, Chicago Sluggers, New York Aces, and New York Sluggers.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780738510057 |
| ISBN 10 | 073851005X |
| Title | The Brooklyn Dodgers |
| Author | Mark Rucker |
| Series | Images Of Sports |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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