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New York City Baseball
Harvey Frommer
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Description for New York City Baseball
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
In the heady days after World War II, the nation was ready for excitement and heroes, and a city—New York—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. New York City Baseball recaptures the extraordinary decade of 1947–1957, when the three New York teams were the uncrowned kings of the city. In those ten years, Casey Stengel’s 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; Bobby ... Read more
In the heady days after World War II, the nation was ready for excitement and heroes, and a city—New York—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. New York City Baseball recaptures the extraordinary decade of 1947–1957, when the three New York teams were the uncrowned kings of the city. In those ten years, Casey Stengel’s 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; Bobby ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing United States
Condition
New
Number of pages
256
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781589798908
SKU
V9781589798908
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Ref
99-15
About Harvey Frommer
Harvey Frommer is the celebrated author of more than forty-two sports books, including Remembering Yankee Stadium, Remembering Fenway Park, and A Yankee Century. Frommer is a professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire.
Reviews for New York City Baseball
Frommer details classic tales of the connection players had to their communities...New York City Baseball The Golden Age is the quintessential collection of baseball information for fans of the era and new fans alike.
Around Citi
PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITION No red-blooded baseball fan will want to be without it . . . a compulsively fascinating book.
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Around Citi
PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITION No red-blooded baseball fan will want to be without it . . . a compulsively fascinating book.
... Read more