After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball

by Robert E. Murphy

Book Overview

For New Yorkers--especially Brooklynites--1957 will always be the year that lives in infamy. It was when the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants delivered a one-two punch to the city by both abandoning their hometown for California. Millions of bereft and angry baseball fans wondered how such a thing could be allowed to happen: Who was to blame? After poring relentlessly through archives, original news stories, and government documents, Robert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140276068X
• ISBN13: 9781402760686
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Union Square Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"