Dodgers Move West

Name: Dodgers Move West
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ISBN: 9780195043662

ISBN-10: 0195043669

ISBN-13: 9780195043662

Edition: 1987

Authors: Neil Sullivan

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For many New Yorkers one of the most traumatic events since World War II was the removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers, one of the most popular baseball teams of all time, to Los Angeles in 1958. In this controversial new look at a story that has reached almost mythic proportions in its many retellings, Neil Sullivan shifts responsibility for the move onto the local government manueverings that occurred on both sides of the continent. Conventional wisdom has it that Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley cold-heartedly abandoned the devoted Brooklyn fans for the easy money of Los Angeles. The truth was actually more complicated. O'Malley had, in fact, wanted to stay in Brooklyn and build a new stadium.…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/4/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 286
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.44" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English