Description: Peter C. Bjarkman The Brooklyn Dodgers Best Offers Considered !! // Very Good Condition // FreeShip in the USA!!! US Seller - Packed Carefully & Ships *with Tracking* within 1 Day After Order. Baseball HCDJ Book The Brooklyn Dodgers Peter C. Bjarkman VG MLB FreeShip Book overviewThree hundred vintage photographs provide a chronicle of the notorious Brooklyn Dodgers from 1884 to 1957 as well as a look at owners, managers, and players from Charles Ebbets and Wee Willie Keeler to Don Drysdale and Walter O'Malley. FROM THE BOOK FLAPS: It seems as though almost everyone whofirst became addicted to baseball in its more innocent days of real grass and sunshine still loves the Dodgers from Brooklyn.From the earliest seasons of the hapless Daffiness Dodgers in the 1930s, through the trailblazing integration experiment of Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson, on to the glorious reign of the "Boys of Sum-mer" dynasty team in the early 1950s, the Brooklyn Bums hold a special charm for diehard fans everywhere, a magical pull on the heartstrings matched by no other single baseball franchise. Although the Dodgers ceased to exist as a team by 1957, and their beloved shrine in Ebbets Field was levelled by urban development more than three decades ago, the ghostly presence of these long-departed Dodgers has only gained strength over the past genera-tion, emerging as a living metaphor for the belief that professional baseball teams are cherished public property. The long-silent Dodgers still live on today as the first and only team ever owned solely by the memories of their devoted fandom.The Brooklyn Dodgers of an earlier era (pre-1940s) were relentlessly dogged by a far different set of ballparkimages—memories ofmadcap clowns in baggybaseball flannels, catastrophic traffic jams cluttering the basepaths, insanely zealous fans rooting vainly for chronic losers.Perhaps in no age of baseball history has any team been more passionately beloved, more intensely followed, and more intimately taken to heart by the local patrons as the very soul and spirit of its communi-ty. Such was the fate of Dodgers teams that called Brooklyn home from the earliest National League years to the middle of the present century. Yet no team was also more reviled for their failures and blunders than those same Brooklyn "Bums."In stark contrast to their earlier bungling ways, the Dodgers occupying Ebbets Field from the end of World War Il until the dawn of West Coast baseball in 1958 was the most dominating National League team in baseball history. These Dodgers-featuring the likes of Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, and Gil Hodges-weren't only good, they were magic on the diamond. Though this team would suffer heartbreaking defeat upon late-season calamity, they still managed to capture the lasting devotion of a generation of the nation's baseball fans.This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique nostalgic treatment of the Brooklyn baseball saga, delightfully told by baseball writer Peter Bjarkman. Relive here once more the inspired story of baseball's true "America's Team." ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter C. Bjarkman, one of the nation's most prolific baseball historians, is author or editor of 15 baseball books and anthol-ogies. Recent titles by "Doctor Baseball" include coffeetable histories of the Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays in the Baseball's Great Dynasties Series (W.H.Smith), The Baseball Scrapbook (Dorset Press), The Immortal Diamond: Baseball in American Literature (Meckler), and juvenile biographies of Hall-of-Famers Roberto Clemente, Duke Snider, Warren Spahn and Ernie Banks (Chelsea House).Bjarkman has also served as editor of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Team Histories (Meckler) and Baseball & the Game of Life: Stories for the Thinking Fan (Vintage), one of the most popular fiction anthologies devoted to the national pastime. Dr. Bjarkman holds a Ph.D. degree in Linguistics from the University of Florida and currently resides in Lafayette, Indiana, with his wife Ronnie Wilbur (a Purdue University Professor), his three cats, and his daughter Kim (a Purdue University student and fan of BritishFront cover: Ebbets Field (center): 1955 Dodgers (left: Jackie Robinson (top): Zack Wheat (right).Back cover: Pee Wee Reese (left) and Don Newcombe (right) before the 1949 World Series against the Yanks. All jacket photos courtesy of UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos. PublisherSt Martins Pr; First Edition (January 1, 1992)LanguageEnglishHardcover79 pagesISBN-101555217613ISBN-13978-1555217617Item Weight1.4 poundsDimensions9.25 x 0.5 x 12.25 inches REVIEW 10 out of 10!!! This hardcover book, titled "The Brooklyn Dodgers", by Peter C. Bjarkman provides a comprehensive look into the history of the team from 1884 to 1957. It includes information on the owners, managers, and players, as well as three hundred vintage photographs. The book is in great shape and has been packed carefully for shipping. It weighs 1.4 pounds and measures 9.25 x 0.5 x 12.25 inches. The ISBN-10 is 1555217613 and the ISBN-13 is 978-1555217617. This item is a must-have for any baseball fan or collector of sports memorabilia!!!
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Book Series: Historical
Original Language: English
Item Length: 10 in
Vintage: Yes
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Unit Type: Unit
Release Year: 1992
Item Height: 12 in
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Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
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Item Width: 0.5 in
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Intended Audience: Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
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Type: Picture Book
Literary Movement: Enlightenment, Expressionism, Medieval, Modernism, Naturalism, Post-Modernism, Realism, Renaissance, Romantic Period
Era: 1990s
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 2 lbs
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Publisher: Book Sales, Incorporated
Topic: Baseball / History
Publication Year: 1992
Book Title: Brooklyn Dodgers
Language: English
Genre: Sports & Recreation
Author: Peter C. Bjarkman
Format: Hardcover
