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The Final Game at Ebbets Field

Author : Noel Hynd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781074174767
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Final Game at Ebbets Field written by Noel Hynd and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dodgers' final game in Brooklyn was played on September 24th, 1957. From the author of "The Giants of The Polo Grounds," here's a thoughtful entertaining new account of that last game played by the Brooklyn Dodgers at baseball's fabled Ebbets Field. 'The Final Game At Ebbets Field' starts this unique collection of true baseball stories. Photographs and a treasure trove of new insights and details accompany this newly researched account. The book continues with a lively assemblage of true major league stories from the golden age of baseball, focusing on New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, with a touch of San Francisco at the conclusion. We meet the fascinating men and women of the first half of the 20th Century. We get to know the people and places of a colorful bygone time: back when there were sixteen teams and hundreds of legendary players. Meet, for example, the family that lived at a ballpark in New York, the female Olympic swimmer who became the pitcher and captain of the New York Female Giants. Spend time with championship Boston Red Sox team that featured the greatest everyday outfield ever. Go back to the day when John Dillinger played professional baseball and Al Capone asked a Chicago player for an autograph, a request that was not to be refused. Fly a single engine plane with Ruth Law, the skilled aviatrix who dropped a grapefruit from an airplane on the Brooklyn manager. Relive the torments of the A's owner who erected a spiteful wall in Philadelphia to prevent neighborhood fans from seeing his team's games.All these true stories and more are contained here, told in the wry amusing style of Noel Hynd, a former contributor to Sports Illustrated.'The Final Game at Ebbets Field' is an insightful romp through some of American baseball's quirkiest events. It's a memorable read! Come join us on a road trip into baseball's most colorful times.Praise for Noel Hynd's "The Giants of The Polo Grounds"......"A compelling and comprehensive history of an extraordinary ball club." - New York Times"Grandly digressive! The owners, stars like Mathewson and Mays, various eccentric players are all here in this vivid history by Sports Illustrated contributor Hynd." - Publishers' Weekly"Fans of all ages will treasure the crazy quilt text for its stylish recall of the game's summer roots." -Kirkus Library Journal"Just plain enjoyable as baseball is supposed to be." - The Pennsylvania GazetteE-book priced in a tribute to Ty Cobb's career batting average. Trade paperback publication, late May 2019.

Brooklyn Dodgers

Author : John Robert Nordell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976507291
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn Dodgers written by John Robert Nordell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No baseball summer is as memorable for me as that July when the Dodgers began a winning streak in a suddenly torrid, topsy-turvy National League pennant race. Fifty years after they played their last baseball game, the Brooklyn Dodgers are still remembered by millions of people. From 1947 to 1956, the Dodgers captured six out of ten National League pennants and they defeated the mighty New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series. The year 1957, however, is recalled mainly for the decision by Dodger president Walter O'Malley to move his team to Los Angeles the following year. In Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive, 1957, author John Nordell tells the story of the Dodgers' mid-season surge in the standings during that last year in Brooklyn. Using research from a variety of sources, Nordell recreates the excitement of following the Dodgers and their National League rivals in the daily drama of a five-team pennant race. The author also draws on his own youthful memories of that year and describes the unforgettable thrill of seeing a game at Ebbets Field. The book includes numerous photographs and a concluding chapter that discusses the outcome of the 1957 pennant race, the major factors and personalities involved in the Dodger move west, and the end of an era in baseball.

The Greatest Ballpark Ever

Author : Bob McGee
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813537754
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Ballpark Ever written by Bob McGee and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations after its demise, Ebbets Field remains the single most colorful and enduring image of a baseball park, with a treasured niche in the game's legacy and the American imagination. In this lively story of sports, politics, and the talented, hilarious, and charming characters associated with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Bob McGee chronicles the ballpark's vibrant history from the drawing board to the wrecking ball, beginning with Charley Ebbets and the heralded opening in 1913, on through the eras that followed. McGee weaves a story about how Ebbets Field's architectural details, notable flaws, and striking facade brought Brooklyn and its team together in ways that allowed each to define the other. Drawing on original interviews and letters, as well as published and archival sources, The Greatest Ballpark Ever explores the struggle of Charley Ebbets to build Ebbets Field, the days of Wilbert Robinson's early pennant winners, the eras of the Daffiness Boys, Larry MacPhail, and Branch Rickey, the tumultuous field leadership of Leo the Lip, the fiery triumph of Jackie Robinson, the golden days of the Boys of Summer, and Walter O'Malley's ignominious departure. With humor and passion, The Greatest Ballpark Ever lets readers relive a day in the raucous ballpark with its quirky angles and its bent right-field wall, with the characters and events that have become part of the nation's folklore.

Unseen

Author : Dana Canedy
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316552976
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Unseen written by Dana Canedy and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times--until now. UNSEEN uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them. It all started with Times photo editor Darcy Eveleigh discovering dozens of these photographs. She and three colleagues, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns, began exploring the history behind them, and subsequently chronicling them in a series entitled Unpublished Black History, that ran in print and online editions of The Times in February 2016. It garnered 1.7 million views on The Times website and thousands of comments from readers. This book includes those photographs and many more, among them: a 27-year-old Jesse Jackson leading an anti-discrimination rally of in Chicago, Rosa Parks arriving at a Montgomery Courthouse in Alabama a candid behind-the-scenes shot of Aretha Franklin backstage at the Apollo Theater, Ralph Ellison on the streets of his Manhattan neighborhood, the firebombed home of Malcolm X, Myrlie Evans and her children at the funeral of her slain husband , Medgar, a wheelchair-bound Roy Campanella at the razing of Ebbets Field. Were the photos--or the people in them--not deemed newsworthy enough? Did the images not arrive in time for publication? Were they pushed aside by words at an institution long known as the Gray Lady? Eveleigh, Canedy, Cave, and Swarms explore all these questions and more in this one-of-a-kind book. UNSEEN dives deep into The Times photo archives--known as the Morgue--to showcase this extraordinary collection of photographs and the stories behind them.

Ballpark

Author : Paul Goldberger
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307701549
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Ballpark written by Paul Goldberger and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic. From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a "saloon in the open air"), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America's favorite pastime. In the changing locations and architecture of our ballparks, Goldberger reveals the manifestations of a changing society: the earliest ballparks evoked the Victorian age in their accommodations--bleachers for the riffraff, grandstands for the middle-class; the "concrete donuts" of the 1950s and '60s made plain television's grip on the public's attention; and more recent ballparks, like Baltimore's Camden Yards, signal a new way forward for stadium design and for baseball's role in urban development. Throughout, Goldberger shows us the way in which baseball's history is concurrent with our cultural history: the rise of urban parks and public transportation; the development of new building materials and engineering and design skills. And how the site details and the requirements of the game--the diamond, the outfields, the walls, the grandstands--shaped our most beloved ballparks. A fascinating, exuberant ode to the Edens at the heart of our cities--where dreams are as limitless as the outfields.

Ballparks

Author : Eric Enders
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 076036530X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Ballparks written by Eric Enders and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love baseball and the venerable stadiums its played in, you need this definitive history and guide to Major League ballparks of the past, present, and future. With a tear-out checklist to mark ballparks you’ve visited and those on your bucket list, Ballparks takes you inside the histories of every park in the Major Leagues, with hundreds of photos, stories, and stats about: Storied parks like Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Dodger Stadium Fan favorites AT&T Park, Camden Yards, PNC Park, Safeco Field, and so much more Forgotten treasures like Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, and all five parks of the Detroit Tigers New stadiums like the Atlanta Braves’ SunTrust Park, the Minneapolis Twins’ Target Field, and New York’s Yankee Stadium and Citifield More than 40 other major league parks that tell the story of the national pastime through the lens of the fields the players call home No baseball fan's collection is complete without this up-to-date tome.

Through a Blue Lens

Author : Dennis D'Agostino
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1633191222
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Through a Blue Lens written by Dennis D'Agostino and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barney Stein was the Dodgers' official team photographer from 1937 until the team left for Los Angeles in 1957. With access that no other photographer had, his camera chronicled every aspect of the team's most vibrant and memorable period. But his Brooklyn Dodger work has remained one of the sports world's &“lost treasures,&” since—except for rare and scattered glimpses—it has not been published or otherwise seen since the team left New York. Now, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Dodgers' last season in Brooklyn, Barney Stein's Dodgers photographs live again. The book takes you to every corner of Ebbets Field &– to the playing field, the dugout, the locker room, even to the fabled Marble Rotunda. You'll see the on-and-off-the-field legends who made the Brooklyn years so unforgettable, as well as never-before-seen photos of the final game at Ebbets Field and the legendary ballpark's demolition.

Ebbets Field

Author : Joseph McCauley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781418481551
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Ebbets Field written by Joseph McCauley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonplace for most people to experience doubt, resistance, or criticism after he or she has shared their earnest conviction, ambition, or intent. But why would anyone want to get in the way of your success? Why do we limit ourselves, as well as place limits on others? People who do such things are referred to as naysayers. A naysayer is a person who habitually expresses negative or pessimistic views. Their goal is to de-motivate, discourage, impede, and destroy your hopes and dreams. What course of action would you take if the odds were stacked against you? What dream did you once conceive in your heart but because of fear, unbelief, and cynicism you allowed the dream to die? In Silence the Naysayers, Kirby Jones challenges you to dream again and re-kindle the fire which at one time profusely burned on the inside of you. Few people are willing to release their security blanket and launch out into uncharted waters, yet he reveals the process involved to unearth the unlimited potential in all of us. Through applicable principles that are established upon the Word of God, Kirby adds his methodology, compelling exercises, and heart warming stories to help guide you to the discovery of your purpose in life. He provides encouragement for those who need to find the strength to go on when no one else has confidence in their ability to succeed. Silence the Naysayers is required reading, and is the 21st century expression for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs. It is not an expression that should be used negatively against those who would refute your hope, dreams, or potential undertaking. However, it is an expression to be used to motivate you, inspire you, and thus illuminate your creative genius in the face of antagonism. This book belongs in the hands of the reader who is seeking meaning for his or her life. The person who undoubtedly desires change and a better quality of life for themselves and others. If you are ready to make the rest of your life the best of your life go on and Silence the Naysayers!

Ebbets Field

Author : John G. Zinn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600643
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Ebbets Field written by John G. Zinn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ebbets Field volume is the second in McFarland's series on historic ballparks. The book combines articles about the park and the memories of those who went there in any capacity. Essay topics include long time Dodger owner Charles Ebbets, Brooklyn at the opening and closing of the park, the first and last Dodger games at Ebbets Field, black baseball at Ebbets Field, non-baseball events at Ebbets Field and statistical analyses of the park. The memories section includes the reminiscences of Dodger and visiting players as well as fans of all types and ages.

We Would Have Played for Nothing

Author : Fay Vincent
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416565310
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book We Would Have Played for Nothing written by Fay Vincent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful new history of the game. Whitey Ford, Duke Snider, Carl Erskine, Bill Rigney, and Ralph Branca tell stories about baseball in New York when the Yankees dominated and seemed to play either the Dodgers or the Giants in every World Series. By the end of the fifties, the two National League teams had relocated to California, as baseball expanded across the country. Hall of Fame pitcher Robin Roberts, Braves mainstay Lew Burdette, home-run king Harmon Killebrew, Cubs slugger Billy Williams, and Hall of Famers Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson share great stories about milestone events, from Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier on the field to Frank Robinson doing the same in the dugout. They remember the teammates and opponents they admired, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Warren Spahn, Don Newcombe, and Ernie Banks. For anyone who grew up watching baseball in the 1950s and 1960s, or for anyone who wonders what it was like in the days when ballplayers negotiated their own contracts and worked real jobs in the off-season, this is a book to cherish.

Bums

Author : Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486477355
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Bums written by Peter Golenbock and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been over 50 years since they moved to Los Angeles, but the Brooklyn Dodgers remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. Golenbock's oral history of these "lovable losers" tells the team's tale through the words of Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher, Duke Snider, and other Brooklyn greats.

The Giants Win the Pennant! the Giants Win the Pennant!

Author : Bobby Thomson
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806523002
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Giants Win the Pennant! the Giants Win the Pennant! written by Bobby Thomson and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been called "The Shot Heard Round the World," the miracle home run hit by Bobby Thomson that won the National League pennant for the Giants -- and is considered one of the most dramatic moments in baseball history. Now, in his own words, Bobby Thomson tells the complete story of that incredible event with fascinating details only he can provide.

Ebbets Field

Author : John G. Zinn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078644827X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Ebbets Field written by John G. Zinn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ebbets Field volume is the second in McFarland's series on historic ballparks. The book combines articles about the park and the memories of those who went there in any capacity. Essay topics include long time Dodger owner Charles Ebbets, Brooklyn at the opening and closing of the park, the first and last Dodger games at Ebbets Field, black baseball at Ebbets Field, non-baseball events at Ebbets Field and statistical analyses of the park. The memories section includes the reminiscences of Dodger and visiting players as well as fans of all types and ages.

The Brooklyn Nine

Author : Alan M. Gratz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101014806
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Brooklyn Nine written by Alan M. Gratz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1845: Felix Schneider, an immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out. 1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, arranges a team tryout for a black pitcher by pretending he is Cuban. 1945: Kat Snider of Brooklyn plays for the Grand Rapids Chicks in the All-American Girls Baseball League. 1981: Michael Flint fi nds himself pitching a perfect game during the Little League season at Prospect Park. And there are fi ve more Schneiders to meet. In nine innings, this novel tells the stories of nine successive Schneider kids and their connection to Brooklyn and baseball. As in all family histories and all baseball games, there is glory and heartache, triumph and sacrifi ce. And it ain?t over till it?s over.

Death at the Ballpark

Author : Robert M. Gorman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786479329
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Death at the Ballpark written by Robert M. Gorman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game's history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking study provides the known details for 150 years of game-related deaths, identifies contributing factors and discusses resulting changes to game rules, protective equipment, crowd control and stadium structures and grounds. Topics covered include pitched and batted-ball fatalities, weather and field condition accidents, structural failures, fatalities from violent or risky behavior and deaths from natural causes.

The Boys of Summer

Author : Roger Kahn
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781312079
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Boys of Summer written by Roger Kahn and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 colour 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 fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience.

Closing 'Em Down

Author : David M. Jordan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786459891
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Closing 'Em Down written by David M. Jordan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the players make the highlight reels, for fans of Major League Baseball the actual ballparks are often the seat of affection and team loyalty. Players come and go, get traded, retire, but the parks remain for decades. This work recounts the histories of the classic parks, those that were built between 1909 and 1923, and the last games that were played in them when their teams finally moved on.