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New Jersey

The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer D'Antonio presents a richly detailed and engrossing portrait of Walter O'Malley--the enigmatic Dodgers' owner who changed Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and baseball forever.

Forever Blue

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers

"On a steamy hot Sunday, the Reverend Herbert Redmond was celebrating Mass at a church in Brooklyn, when he startled his congregation thus: "It's far too hot for a sermon. Keep the Commandments and say a prayer for Gil Hodges.""
"Praying for Gil Hodges" is built around a detailed reconstruction of the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, which has always been on the short list of great moments in baseball history. On a sunny, breezy October afternoon, something happened in New York City that had never happened before and never would again: the Brooklyn Dodgers won the world championship of baseball. For one hour and forty-four minutes, behind a gutsy, twenty-three-year-old kid left-hander from the iron-mining region of upstate New York named Johnny Podres, everything that had gone wrong before went gloriously right for a change. Until that afternoon, leaving out the war years, the Dodgers and their legions of fans had endured ten seasons during which they lost the World Series to the New York Yankees five times and lost the National League pennant on the final day of the season three times--- facts of history that give the famous cry of "Wait Till Next Year " its defiant meaning.
Pitch by pitch and inning by inning, Thomas Oliphant re-creates a relentless melodrama that shows this final game in its true glory. As we move through the game, he builds a remarkable history of the hapless "Bums," exploring the Dodgers' status as a national team, based on their fabled history of near-triumphs and disasters that made them classic underdogs. He weaves into this brilliant recounting a winning memoir of his own family's story and their time together on that fateful day that the final game was played.
This victory thrilled the national African-American community, still mired in the evils of segregation, who had erupted in joy at the arrival of Jackie Robinson eight years earlier and rooted unabashedly for this integrated team at a time when the country was thoroughly segregated.
And it also thrilled a nine-year-old boy on the East Side of Manhattan in a loving, struggling family for whom the Dodgers were a rare source of the joys and symbols that bring families together through tough times.
Every once in a while a book provides a certain view of America, and whether it is "The Greatest Generation," "Big Russ & Me, " or "Wait Till Next Year, "these works strike a chord with readers everywhere. "Praying for Gil Hodges" is such a book. Written with power and clarity, this is a brilliant work capturing the majesty of baseball, the issue of race in America, and the love that one young boy, his parents, and the borough of Brooklyn had for their team.


Praying for Gil Hodges

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Florida

"The inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, from the ownership of the team to management to the players on the field, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball"--

The Best Team Money Can Buy

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Memoir

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.

Wait till Next Year

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California

A Lefty's Legacy

In an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity. As a pitcher, he was sublime, the ace of baseball lore. As a human being, he aspired to be the one thing his talent and his fame wouldn't allow: a regular guy. A Brooklyn kid, he was the product of the sedate and modest fifties who came to define and dominate baseball in the sixties. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, former award-winning Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy delivers an uncommon baseball book, vividly re-creating the Koufax era, when presidents were believed and pitchers aspired to go the distance. He was only a teenager when Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley proclaimed him "the Great Jewish Hope" of the franchise. But it wasn't until long after the team had abandoned Brooklyn that the man became the myth. Old-fashioned in his willingness to play when he was injured and in his acute sense of responsibility to his team, Koutax answered to an authority higher than manager Walter Alston. When he refused to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, he inadvertently made himself a religious icon and an irrevocably public figure. A year later, he was gone -- done with baseball at age thirty. No other sports hero had retired so young, so well, or so completely. Despite Sandy Koufax's best efforts to protect his privacy, his legend has grown larger ever since. Part biography, part cultural history, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy gets as close to that legend as he will allow. Through meticulous reporting and interviews with five hundred of his friends, teammates, and opponents, Leavy penetrates the mythology to discover a man more than worthy of myth.

Sandy Koufax

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Connecticut

Heroes of America Illustrated Lives

 Jackie Robinson

Great condition for its age! See all pics 

Missouri

The Story of Jackie Robinson

Chronicles the spectacular career of Jackie Robinson, both on and off the baseball diamond, as the Dodger outfielder became the first Black player in professional baseball.

Stealing Home

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Great baseball story for young children. #paperback #baseball #sports #dodgers #ya #homeschool 

Wisconsin

The game is everything

The Kid From Tomkinsville

Compiles first-hand oral accounts, of players and fans, to build a chronicle of the Dodger years in Brooklyn and of the great stars of those years

Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers

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"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.

The Boys of Summer

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1986 Los Angeles Dodgers Media Guide 

Peter Bjarhman

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Baseball Scrapbook

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New York

The First One Hundred Years

Dodgers!

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TOMMY LASORDA

LOS ANGELES TIMES COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE

Roger Kahn

The Classic Narrative of Growing up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since

The Boys of Summer recreates the magic of Dodger baseball as played in Ebbets Field during that brief dream when Brooklyn was the center of the universe. Robinson, Snider, Reese, Furillo, Campanella, and the rest tell Roger Kahn how it was raising hopes every year only to fall before the mighty pinstripes . . . until that unforgettable year ('55) when it all came together. At the same time Kahn masterfully interweaves the story of his own youth, from early fandom to young reporterhood, traveling with and writing about his childhood idols.

Jackie Robinson

Alfred Duckett

An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

The bestselling autobiography of American baseball and civil rights legend Jackie Robinson

Before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all white. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke that barrier, striking a crucial blow for racial equality and changing the world of sports forever. I Never Had It Made is Robinson's own candid, hard-hitting account of what it took to become the first black man in history to play in the major leagues.



I Never Had It Made recalls Robinson's early years and influences: his time at UCLA, where he became the school's first four-letter athlete; his army stint during World War II, when he challenged Jim Crow laws and narrowly escaped court martial; his years of frustration, on and off the field, with the Negro Leagues; and finally that fateful day when Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers proposed what became known as the "Noble Experiment"--Robinson would step up to bat to integrate and revolutionize baseball.



More than a baseball story, I Never Had It Made also reveals the highs and lows of Robinson's life after baseball. He recounts his political aspirations and civil rights activism; his friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, William Buckley, Jr., and Nelson Rockefeller; and his troubled relationship with his son, Jackie, Jr.

I Never Had It Made endures as an inspiring story of a man whose heroism extended well beyond the playing field.

I Never Had It Made

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Jules Tygiel

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Baseball As History

Discusses baseball's history and the game's relationship to American society from the 1850s until the present day.

Past Time

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Idaho

A profile of the enigmatic owner of the Dodgers chronicles the Tammany Hall origins that enabled him to become wealthy during the Depression, his clashes with power broker Robert Moses, and how the team's relocation and stadium construction shaped Los Angeles.

Duke Snider

Bill Gilbert

The Duke of Flatbush

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Bob McGee

Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers

Generations after its demise, Ebbets Field remains the single most colorful and enduring image of a baseball park, with a treasured niche in the game's legacy and the American imagination. In this lively story of sports, politics, and the talented, hilarious, and charming characters associated with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Bob McGee chronicles the ballpark's vibrant history from the drawing board to the wrecking ball, beginning with Charley Ebbets and the heralded opening in 1913, on through the eras that followed. McGee weaves a story about how Ebbets Field's architectural details, notable flaws, and striking facade brought Brooklyn and its team together in ways that allowed each to define the other. Drawing on original interviews and letters, as well as published and archival sources, ""The Greatest Ballpark Ever"" explores the struggle of Charley Ebbets to build Ebbets Field, the days of Wilbert Robinson's early pennant winners, the ears of the Daffiness Boys, Larry MacPhail, and Branch Rickey, the tumultuous field leadership of Leo the Lip, the fiery triumph of Jackie Robinson, the golden days of the Boys of Summer, and Walter O'Malley's ignominious departure. With humor and passion, ""The Greatest Ballpark Ever"" lets readers relive a day in the raucous ballpark with its quirky angles and its bent right-field wall, with the characters and events that have become part of the nation's folklore.

The Greatest Ballpark Ever

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Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between

A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city. Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy. Instead of getting their homes back, the remaining residents saw the city sell their land to Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now LA would be getting a different sort of utopian fantasy -- a glittering, ultra-modern stadium. But before Dodger Stadium could be built, the city would have to face down the neighborhood's families -- including one, the Aréchigas, who refused to yield their home. The ensuing confrontation captivated the nation - and the divisive outcome still echoes through Los Angeles today.

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Nevada

Dodgers Blue Book, 1983

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The Voice of Dodger Baseball

For an amazing 67 years, Vin Scully was not only the voice of Dodgers baseball, but the gold standard when it came to sports broadcasting. A legend early in his prestigious career, Scully was a trusted companion to countless baseball fans across generations.

Vin Scully: The Voice of Dodger Baseball is a celebration of an unparalleled life and career in the sport, from Scully's early days in Brooklyn with the Dodgers in the 1950s, to the introduction of baseball in Southern California with Sandy Koufax and the Boys of Summer in the 1960s, to Fernandomania and the Dodgers' return to prominence in the 1980s, all the way through his retirement in 2016 and continued presence around the team as they recaptured the World Series crown in 2020. Through the memorable storytelling and dynamic historic photography of the Los Angeles Daily News, fans can relive the incredible life of Scully and honor a legacy that's sure to live on for generations of Dodgers fans to come.

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Michael D'Antonio

Forever Blue

Thomas Oliphant

Praying for Gil Hodges

Molly Knight

The Best Team Money Can Buy

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wait till Next Year

Jane Leavy

Sandy Koufax

Joshua E. Hanft

Jackie Robinson

Barry Denenberg

Stealing Home

John R. Tunis

The Kid From Tomkinsville

Peter Golenbock

Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers

Roger Kahn

The Boys of Summer

Los Angeles Dodgers

1986 Los Angeles Dodgers Media Guide

Peter Bjarhman

Baseball Scrapbook

Michael D'Antonio

Forever Blue

Stanley Cohen

Dodgers!

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LOS ANGELES TIMES COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE

Roger Kahn

The Boys of Summer

Jackie Robinson; Alfred Duckett

I Never Had It Made

Jules Tygiel

Past Time

Michael D'Antonio

Forever Blue

Duke Snider; Bill Gilbert

The Duke of Flatbush

Bob McGee

The Greatest Ballpark Ever

Eric Nusbaum

Stealing Home

Tot Holmes

Dodgers Blue Book, 1983

Los Angeles news

Vin Scully