The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball
by
Robert E. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
By the mid-1950s, New York had been the unrivaled capital of America’s national pastime for a century, a place where baseball was followed with truly fanatical fervor. The city’s three teams—the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers—had over the previous decade rewarded...