A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader
The Brooklyn Dodgers are one of the most popular and most beloved baseball teams of all time. This book is a collection of writings about them, arranged chronologically—news reports, articles and excerpts from both fiction and nonfiction works by some of the best baseball writers of the past sixty years. Among them are James L. Terry (from Long Before the Dodgers); John Lardner ("The Unbelievable Babe Herman"); Red Barber and Robert Creamer (from Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat); Harold Parrott (from The Lords of Baseball and "Owen Drops Third Strike"); Robin Roberts and C. Paul Rogers, III (from My Life in Baseball); and Red Smith ("Erskine Fans 14 Yanks," "Over the River" and "Last Chapter").

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A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader
The Brooklyn Dodgers are one of the most popular and most beloved baseball teams of all time. This book is a collection of writings about them, arranged chronologically—news reports, articles and excerpts from both fiction and nonfiction works by some of the best baseball writers of the past sixty years. Among them are James L. Terry (from Long Before the Dodgers); John Lardner ("The Unbelievable Babe Herman"); Red Barber and Robert Creamer (from Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat); Harold Parrott (from The Lords of Baseball and "Owen Drops Third Strike"); Robin Roberts and C. Paul Rogers, III (from My Life in Baseball); and Red Smith ("Erskine Fans 14 Yanks," "Over the River" and "Last Chapter").

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A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader

A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader

by Andrew Paul Mele (Editor)
A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader

A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader

by Andrew Paul Mele (Editor)

Overview

The Brooklyn Dodgers are one of the most popular and most beloved baseball teams of all time. This book is a collection of writings about them, arranged chronologically—news reports, articles and excerpts from both fiction and nonfiction works by some of the best baseball writers of the past sixty years. Among them are James L. Terry (from Long Before the Dodgers); John Lardner ("The Unbelievable Babe Herman"); Red Barber and Robert Creamer (from Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat); Harold Parrott (from The Lords of Baseball and "Owen Drops Third Strike"); Robin Roberts and C. Paul Rogers, III (from My Life in Baseball); and Red Smith ("Erskine Fans 14 Yanks," "Over the River" and "Last Chapter").

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786461080
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 09/13/2010
Pages: 287
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

The late Andrew Paul Mele had retired from the Brooklyn Public Library. The author of six books and several short stories, his articles appeared in the Staten Island Advance and the Italian Tribune. He lived in Staten Island.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     
Foreword by Carl Erskine     

I. Warm-Ups In the Beginning
James L. Terry     
The Atlantics Triumphant
Brooklyn Daily Eagle     
The Fields of Brooklyn
Burt Solomon     

II. Early Innings
History Lesson
Arthur Daley     
Superbas Open Season with a 1-0 Shutout Defeat
Thomas Rice     
Uncle Robbie and the Brooks
Arthur Daley     
Brooklyn v. Boston in 26 Innings
Ralph D. Blanpied     
The Unbelievable Babe Herman
John Lardner     
The First Night Major League Game in the Metropolitan Area
Roscoe McGowen     
The Ole Redhead Comes to Brooklyn
Red Barber and Robert Creamer     
When Ebbets Field Was a Bad Joke
Harold Parrott     
Hurricane Larry
Donald Honig     
Owen Drops Third Strike
Harold Parrott     
Baseball Goes to
Frank Graham     
Havana:      1942
Donald Honig     
Warm-ups
John C. Chalberg     
Negro Ace Outstanding Prospect
Harold C. Burr     
1946: Season of Tumult
William Marshall     
The Petition
Harold Parrott     
The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete
W.C. Heinz     
Hilda, Leo, and Pistol Pete
Donald Honig     
The Dodgers and Brooklyn's Ethnic Isolation
Carl E. Prince     

III. Middle Innings
Brooklyn,      1947
Scott Simon     
Jackie Robinson’s First Major League Baseball Game
Jimmy Cannon     
July 18,      1947
Christopher Renino     
Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie!
Dick Young     
Maybe Rickey Is a Genius After
Tommy Holmes     
Red Barber's Call of the Gionfriddo Catch, October 5,      1947
Radio Broadcast     
1948-Leo Crosses the Bridge
Gerald Eskenazi     
Hodges Erupts
Dick Young     
My Life in Baseball
Robin Roberts and C. Paul Rogers, III     
The Emancipation of Jackie Robinson
Milton Gross     
The
Alan Lelchuk     
Robby’s HR, Grab Force ’51 Playoff
Dick Young     
Character, Dignity, Courage
Marino Amoruso     
What Winning the Pennant Means to Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle     
Dodgers Defeat Yanks; Erskine Fans     
Red Smith     
Brooklyns Lose
William Heuman     
Walt Alston
Peter Golenbock     
Pee Wee Reese Night
Tot Holmes     
Who's a Bum!
Leo O’Mealia     
Dodgers Champs! Podres Wins,      2-0
Joe Trimble     
—And Joy Reigned Unrefined
Art Smith     
Erskine Only Dodger with Pair of No-Hitters
Tot Holmes     
Over the River
Red Smith     
Last Pennant in Brooklyn
Jimmy Cannon     
The Man Was Perfect
Shirley Povich     
The Longest Night
Michael Shapiro     
Jackie Robinson: More Than a Ballplayer
J. Ronald Oakley     
A Shortstop in Kentucky
Roger Kahn     

IV. Seventh Inning Stretch
In the Cold Gray Dawn of the Morning After
Tommy Holmes     
1951 and the Miracle Pennant Race
James D. Szalontai     
The Rivalry
Roger Kahn     
Last Chapter
Red Smith     

V. Late Innings
Overture from the Coast
Neil J. Sullivan     
Let's Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn
Samuel Denoff, William Persky and Roy Ross     
Walt, You Can Go, but Own Up as to
Jimmy Cannon     
Twilight of the Bums
Robert Creamer     
Take Them Away, L.A.!
Chris Kieran     
It’s Official-Dodgers Go to Los Angeles
Tommy Holmes     

VI. The Last Out
30 Years of Perfidy
New York Daily News     
How The Boys of Summer Got Started
Roger Kahn     
Wreck-Ball Caps Ebbets Field
Dana Mozley     
There Used to Be a Ballpark
Joe Raposo     
I’m Sorry They Left
Red Barber and Robert Creamer     

Appendix: Brooklyn Dodgers in the Baseball Hall of Fame     
Index     
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