Description
A moving elegy . . . [to] the best team the majors ever saw . . . the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. -- New York Times
The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and what's happened to everybody since.
This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for The Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.
Author: Roger Kahn
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/09/2006
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.30w x 0.98d
ISBN13: 9780060883966
ISBN10: 0060883960
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Baseball | History
- History | United States | 20th Century