After many a summer : the passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a golden age in New York baseball /
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| Author / Creator: | Murphy, Robert. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Union Square Press, c2009. |
| Description: | xiv, 418 p., plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8000407 |
| Summary: | 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.</p> </p> AFTER MANY A SUMMER reveals : </p> </p> How baseball commissioner Ford Frick helped facilitate the teams' move to California</p> </p> Which plan for a new stadium would have appeased Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley--and saved Brooklyn baseball</p> </p> How Robert Moses, who has received much blame, actually tried to solve the problem</p> </p> How O'Malley and Giants owner Horace Stoneham worked in tandem to make sure their popular rivalry would continue in LA</p> </p> How the two owners managed to carry out secret talks with California officials even while insisting they had no plans to leave New York</p> </p> </p> |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 418 p., plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-401) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781402760686 140276068X |
