Dodgers Move West

Name: Dodgers Move West
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ISBN: 9780195059229

ISBN-10: 0195059220

ISBN-13: 9780195059229

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Neil Sullivan

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For many New Yorkers, the removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers--perhaps the most popular baseball team of all time--to Los Angeles in 1957 remains one of the most traumatic events since World War II. Neil J. Sullivan's controversial reassessment of a story that has reached almost mythic proportions in its many retellings shifts responsibility for the move onto the local governmental maneuverings 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. Sullivan argues that O'Malley had, in fact, wanted to stay in Brooklyn, hoping to build a new stadium with his…

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List price: $26.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/8/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.95" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English