New York City Baseball by Harvey Frommer

New York City Baseball by Harvey Frommer

What a time In the heady days after World War II, a nation was ready for heroes and a great city was eager for entertainment. Baseball provided the heroes, and the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers--with their rivalries, their successes, their stars--provided the show. In those ten years, Casey Stengel and his Bronx Bombers went to the World Series seven times; Joltin' Joe DiMaggio stepped gracefully aside to make room for a young slugger named Mickey Mantle; and the Brooklyn (but not for much longer) Dodgers achieved the impossible by beating the Yankees in the1955 World Series. Includes rare interviews with Monte Irvin, Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mel Allen, Duke Snider, Eddie Lopat, Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Coleman, and New York media figures.

Harvey Frommer is one of the most prolific and respected sports journalists and oral historians working today. He is the author of the autobiographies of Nolan Ryan, Tony Dorsett and Red Holzman and an expert on the New York Yankees. Frommer wrote for Yankees Magazine for nearly 18 years, and has arguably written more books, articles and reviews on the team than anyone else. In 2010, Frommer was chosen by the City of New York to be the historical consultant for the reimagined old Yankee Stadium site that became Heritage Field. He has been a professor in the MALS program at Dartmouth College for more than two decades. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire with his wife, Myrna Katz Frommer.

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ISBN 13	9780689706844
ISBN 10	0689706847
Title	New York City Baseball
Author	Harvey Frommer
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Atheneum Books
Year published	1985-01-01
Number of pages	219
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