The Last Years of the Brooklyn Dodgers
A History, 1950–1957
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About the Book
This work, which picks up where the author’s previous book, The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s (McFarland, 2005), left off, covers the Dodgers’ final eight years in Brooklyn. Chapters carry the reader from the 1951 playoffs, when a late season collapse and Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round the World” dealt Brooklyn a heartbreaking blow, through the 1955 World Series title, and finally to Walter O’Malley’s controversial decision to move the team to Los Angeles. The author covers each season in-depth and assesses popular perceptions of the Dodgers, their players and owners, and considers O’Malley’s culpability in the team’s departure, which ended a string of 74 years in which Brooklyn had major league baseball.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
Rudy Marzano
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 216
Bibliographic Info: 25 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2008
pISBN: 978-0-7864-3006-2
eISBN: 978-1-4766-1295-9
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. 1950: The Struggle for Power 9
2. 1951: The Shot Heard All Over Flatbush 44
3. 1952: Dressen Survives His Mistakes 76
4. 1953: Race Was Always a Problem 97
5. 1954: Behind the Giants Again 118
6. 1955: Finally, the Year of Jubilee 135
7. 1956: Inching Their Way Westward 155
8. 1957: Over the Sierras to La-La Land 177
Aftermath 189
Chapter Notes 195
Bibliography 201
Index 205