New York City Baseball

Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780299196943
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York City Baseball written by Harvey Frommer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What a time! In the heady days after World War II, a nation was ready for heroes and a great city was eager for entertainment. Baseball provided the heroes, and the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers - with their rivalries, their successes, their stars - provided the show. Harvey Frommer chronicles how in those eleven remarkable years Yankees, the Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers won a collective seven pennants and nine World Series; Joltin' Joe DiMaggio stepped gracefully aside to make room for a young slugger named Mickey Mantle; and the Brooklyn (but not for much longer) Dodgers achieved the impossible by beating the Yankees in the 1955 World Series. This classic book includes rare interviews with Monte Irvin, Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Walter O'Malley, former New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Mel Allen, Duke Snider, Eddie Lopat, Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Coleman, and New York media figures."--Jacket.

Author : Museum of the City of New York
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061344052
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glory Days written by Museum of the City of New York and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1947 season until the Dodgers and Giants slunk out of town for the Golden State in 1957, the epicenter of the "American Game" was New York City. In every year but one, at least one of the three New York teams played in the World Series. The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957 recreates the way it was and we were, in an era that seems like only yesterday. With contributions from such writers as Kevin Baker, George Vecsey, and Andrew Zimbalist, The Glory Days is a "people's hall of fame" for baseball and New York in those years, a museum of memories. A Knothole Gang membership card, an Ebbets Field usher's pin, a 1948 Joe DiMaggio jersey with a black armband honoring Babe Ruth, the home plate torn from the playing field at the Giants' last game at the Polo Grounds in 1957. . . all of these moments and more are immortalized within these pages. More than 350 dazzling images of the game and its artifacts from the Museum of the City of New York exhibition, The Glory Days, are accompanied by brilliant essays from some of baseball's most renowned writers. Whether it was breaking the color barrier; the question of "Willie, Mickey, or the Duke"; the team rivalries; or the greatest on-field moment in the history of baseball, the "shot heard 'round the world," the glory days of New York baseball were vibrant and alive. Experience the era the way it really was: raucous, hopeful, thrilling, crushing, and above all, glorious.

Author : Tony Morante
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952234101
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball the New York Game written by Tony Morante and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark C. Healey illustrations by
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467141631
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gotham Baseball: New York’s All-Time Team written by Mark C. Healey illustrations by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball may be the great American pastime, but in New York, it is a religion. Names like Ruth, Mays, Gehrig, Wright and Robinson live in the hearts and minds of New York fans like apostles. From the street corner to the subway car, debates about which Yankee, Giant, Dodger or Met is better than another have raged on for more than one hundred years. Now, the best of the best are chosen for each position as New York's all-time greatest team is imagined. Shoo-ins like the Babe and Jackie have their stories told with a fresh perspective. The compelling case for Mike Piazza, not Yogi Berra, as catcher is sure to spark arguments. Sportswriter Mark Healey crafts the Gotham baseball team through captivating tales of the legends of the New York game.

Author : Wayne R. Coffey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1524760889
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Said It Couldn't Be Done written by Wayne R. Coffey and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, the New York Mets spent their first year in existence racking up the worst record in baseball history. Things scarcely got any better for the ensuing six years--they were baseball's laughingstock, but somehow lovable in their ineptitude, building a fiercely loyal fan base. And then came 1969, a year that brought the lunar landing, Woodstock, nonstop antiwar protests, and the most tumultuous and fractious New York City mayoral race in memory--along with the most improbable season in the annals of Major League Baseball. It concluded on an invigorating autumn afternoon in Queens, when a Minnesota farm boy named Jerry Koosman beat the Baltimore Orioles for the second time in five games, making the Mets champions of the baseball world. It wasn't merely an upset but an unprecedented, uplifting achievement for the ages. From the ashes of those early scorched-earth seasons, Gil Hodges, a beloved former Brooklyn Dodger, put together a 25-man whole that was vastly more formidable than the sum of its parts. Beyond the top-notch pitching staff headlined by Tom Seaver, Koosman, and Gary Gentry, and the hitting prowess of Cleon Jones, the Mets were mostly comprised of untested kids and lightly regarded veterans. Everywhere you looked on this team, there was a man with a compelling backstory, from Koosman, who never played high school baseball and grew up throwing in a hayloft in subzero temperatures with his brother Orville, to third baseman Ed Charles, an African-American poet with a deep racial conscience whose arrival in the big leagues was delayed almost a decade because of the color of his skin. In the tradition of The Boys of Winter, his classic bestseller about the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, Wayne Coffey tells the story of the '69 Mets as it has never been told before--against the backdrop of the space race, Stonewall, and Vietnam, set in an ever-changing New York City. With dogged reporting and a storyteller's eye for detail, Coffey finds the beating heart of a baseball family. Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Mets' remarkable transformation from worst to best, They Said It Couldn't Be Done is a spellbinding, feel-good narrative about an improbable triumph by the ultimate underdog.

Author : Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250118379
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazin' written by Peter Golenbock and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral history of the New York Mets, by the New York Times bestselling baseball writer of Bums and The Bronx Zoo. From Tom Seaver to Gary Carter, Ron Swoboda to Al Leiter, from the team's inception to the current day, the New York Mets' road to success has been a rutted and furrowed path. Now, with the help of New York Times bestselling author Peter Golenbock, the complete story of one of the most controversial teams in baseball history comes to life. Told from the voices of the men who experienced it firsthand, this compulsively readable account gives baseball fans the inside scoop on one of baseball's most popular teams. This is the true story of a group of men who won the hearts and shattered the dreams of generations. Utilizing dozens of personal interviews with players, coaches, fans, and sportswriters, Amazin' takes readers on a journey from the Mets' bumbling days as a new team in 1962, to their stunning World Championships in 1969 and 1986, right up through to today. In time for the anniversary of the New York Mets, Amazin' is rich with unforgettable personalities and wondrous stories both funny and poignant.

Author : Stew Thornley
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566397964
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land of the Giants written by Stew Thornley and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of New York's Polo Grounds. From Merkle's Boner which cost the New York Giants a pennant, to Bobby Thomson's homer, which won them one, Stew Thornley retells the events of the park and its legendary personalities.

Author : Mark Feinsand
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1637270399
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Franchise: New York Yankees written by Mark Feinsand and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Franchise: New York Yankees, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of the baseball's most successful team. This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans' history of the franchise, going beyond well-worn narratives of yesteryear to uncover the less-discussed moments, decisions, people, and settings that fostered the Yankees' iconic identity. Through wheeling and dealing, mythmaking and community building, explore where the organization has been, how it got to prominence in the modern major league landscape, and how it'll continue to evolve and stay in contention for generations to come. Yankees fans in the know will enjoy this personal, local, in-depth look at baseball history.

Author : Daniel Okrent
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618056682
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Baseball Book written by Daniel Okrent and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK has more than lived up to its name. Spanning the complete history of the sport from the fledgling leagues in the late 1870s to the powerhouses of the 1990s and revealing in the process what a remarkable effect baseball has had on our collective experience, this is THE book for any and all baseball fans, certain to grace coffee and bedside tables alike. Designed with that wonderful nostalgia that the sport itself so often evokes, THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK combines timeless images with a sweeping narrative history as well as essays on various idols and icons by such heavy hitters as Red Smith, Wilfrid Sheed, Roy Blount, Jr., Tom Wicker, and Geoge Will. This new edition covers baseball through the nineties, the decade when home run records fell and the sport reclaimed its hold on America, and celebrates the national game in ultimate style.

Author : Neil J. Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195157963
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond in the Bronx written by Neil J. Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No sport has mattered more to Americans than baseball--and no team has had a greater impact on baseball than the New York Yankees. Now Neil Sullivan delivers a narrative worthy of his fabled subject, in this marvelous history of Yankee Stadium. Fans have a box-seat at the Stadium's first Opening Day: The stunning visual impact of the baseball's first true stadium, the festivities, the players (including Babe Ruth who christened the Stadium with its first home run), and the game in which the Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1. The Stadium was immediately known as "The House That Ruth Built," but Sullivan takes us behind the scenes to meet the politicians, businessmen and fixers who were even more responsible for the Stadium than the Babe was: Colonel Jacob Ruppert, the beer baron and Tammany Hall insider who bought the Yankees and built the Stadium; Mayors like Jimmy Walker who reigned during the Yankees first Golden Age, John Lindsay who fought hard for liberal causes in the 1960s but even harder for a refurbished Stadium, and Rudy Giuliani, who has taken a hard-nosed approach to most welfare but who supports a stadium subsidy for the Yankees. Here too are the great seasons including the cross town World Series rivalries with the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Sullivan looks at the legendary players like Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle as well as lesser lights like Jake Powell to see their impact beyond the diamond. Along the way, Sullivan uses the story of the Stadium to examine issues ranging from racial integration and urban renewal to the reasons why New York City, even during tough times, has come to adopt the Stadium as a public obligation. Neil Sullivan knows baseball and city politics and the connections between the two. In these pages, he tells how Yankee Stadium is not just the most revered venue in American sports, but also a part of urban history as compelling as the grandest baseball legend.