New York City Baseball: The Golden Age, 19471957 [Paperback]

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.PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITIONNo red-blooded baseball fan will want to be without it . . . a compulsively fascinating book.PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITIONA good history of the time and the particulars. . . . Everyone is here: DiMaggio in pain, killing the Red Sox, Lavagetto ruining Bevens no-hitter; Thompson and Branca. . . . It was a helluva ten years we had for ourselves. . . . Its good to find New York City Baseball to re-create a happier era.PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITIONAn excellent book that brings back the humanness of the Dodgers, the Giants, and the Yankees. We shall not have such an era again except in such loving books as this one.PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITIONA wonderfully written, evocative book.As one who remembers that era well, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Harvey Frommer's account of it.PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITIONMemory after memory, page after page. I enjoyed it very much.New York City Baseball recaptures the extraordinary decade of 19471957, when the three New York teams were the uncrowned kings of the city. In those ten years, Casey Stengels 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 Thomson hit the shot heard round the world; and the Brooklyn Dodgers achieved the impossible by beating the Yankees in the 1955 World Series. Over the decade, the teams averaged an astounding 90 wins against 63 losses a season, making it, according to The New York Times, a helluva ten years.In the heady days after World War II, the nation was ready for excitement and heroes, and a cityNew Yorkwas eager for entertainment. Baseball provided the heroes, and the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgerswith their rivalries, their successeslâ