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Kernel of Truth
Sports teams leave cities for other places with regularity these days but was there ever a more (pardon the pun) seismic shift than when the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles? But for one magic season, the stars aligned for one city and its fans.
Product Description
“A moving elegy . . . [to] the best team the majors ever saw . . . the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s.” — New York Times
The classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and what’s happened to everybody since.
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 color 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 about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Roger Kahn
Published: 05/09/2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060883966
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.30w x 0.98d
