Last Years of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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''...
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''...
