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The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s

By Rudy Marzano

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The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s

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Before the rise of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, baseball was a game of white men, cloth caps and concrete walls. Four men helped to change the sport as America knew it: Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, Jackie Robinson and Pete Reiser. These men were essential to the evolution of baseball, especially in their home of Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. It was there that the first major league game was televised, where the batting helmet was developed, where the first walls were padded and the first outfield warning tracks laid down and--with the arrival of Jackie Robinson, it is where the color line was broken. This richly researched history which includes chapters such as "1940: MacPhail Starts a Dodger Dynasty," "1942: FDR Says the Show Must Go On" and "The War Years," presents an exploration of how a crucial decade of Dodger accomplishments transformed American baseball.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
236
Release Date:
2005-01-30
Publication Date:
2005-01-29
Publisher:
McFarland
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0786419873
ISBN13:
9780786419876
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
390 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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