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The Glory Days New York Baseball 19471957
Author: Museum of the City of New York

What was it like, to be alive then, when New York City was the capital of baseball? When the city played host to the greatest game, the greatest pennant race, the greatest teams, the greatest center fielders? When everything seemed bigger yet somehow personal? The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957 is a companion to an exhibition a... more »t the Museum of the City of New York. With brilliant essays by renowned baseball writers and more than 350 dazzling images of the game and its artifacts, this book recreates the era the way it was and we were, only yesterday. Like the exhibition, this book forms a "people's hall of fame" for baseball and the city in those years, a museum of memories. In a banged-up, dog-eared baseball card that has rippled in the wind of bicycle spokes, real life still resides. And so it does in our legion of improbable survivors, from a Knothole Gang membership card to an Ebbets Field usher's pin, from a 1948 Joe DiMaggio jersey with a black armband honoring Babe Ruth to the home plate torn from the playing field at the Giants' last game at the Polo Grounds in 1957. Among the fabulous survivors unearthed for this book are glorious color photographs from private archives, never published or not seen in the years since their only appearance. The Museum's LOOK magazine archives supplied many wonders, while others have come from the treasure trove of Sport magazine, beloved of all boys back then; the vault of Barney Stein, who photographed the Dodgers so beautifully; and the archive of Hy Peskin, perhaps the greatest of all sports photographers. The pictures tell their thousands of words, from the artifacts waft the aroma of the past, and the writers vividly tell the stories that pictures can't. The big story of the era in New York, in baseball and in America was racial integration; Jules Tygiel reminds us in his essay for the first inning that while Jackie Robinson was a hero, he was not the only one. Perhaps nowhere else but New York could Branch Rickey's great experiment have been launched, and Michael Shapiro reflects in "What Was Lost" upon how important baseball was to the city and vice versa. For better and sometimes worse, modern baseball was invented in this period. George Vecsey warmly recalls the changing media scene while Andrew Zimbalist and Steven A. Riess incisively detail the economic factors behind the departure of the Dodgers and Giants for California. Lee Lowenfish tips his cap to, of all people, the much reviled Horace Stoneham, and Jonathan Eig describes the advent of nationally televised baseball with the 1947 World Series. Kevin Baker's essay "Thomson at the Ferry," takes off from the greatest on-field moment in the history of baseball, the "shot heard 'round the world," to look at the city when it too was at its greatest. Jane Leavy eloquently answers the question of "Willie, Mickey, or the Duke" with "Forever Mick." Ray Robinson sat in the bleachers for the last game the Giants played in New York, which he recalls in the book's "ninth inning." And in an extra and final inning, Alan Schwarz identifies the real legacy of the era, the one that fills not only Shea and Yankee Stadiums but our hearts as well. In this sumptuous and evocative book the glory days of New York baseball are vibrant with color, not tinged in sepia or recalled with syrupy nostalgia. Experience the era the way it really was: colorful, raucous, hopeful, thrilling, crushing. Glorious.

ISBN-13: 9780061344046
ISBN-10: 0061344044
Publication Date: 5/1/2007
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Collins
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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