Bums: an Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
BUMS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE BROOKLYN DODGERS. Peter Golenbock. 2000/2003. Read by Raymond Todd. 14 tapes. 19.5 hrs. Blacks:one. 0-7861-2423-7 $134.95. Vinyl; content, author notes. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association.
What makes Golenbock's moving and comprehensive book special is the way he has woven interviews of many of the Dodger greats into his narrative of the history of the team. Jackie Robinson Noun 1. Jackie Robinson - United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)
Jack Roosevelt Robinson, Robinson , Roy Campanella Roy Campanella (November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993), nicknamed "Campy", was an American baseball player — primarily at the position of catcher — in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. , Dee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Carl Furillo, Branch Rickey, Leo Durocher, Cookie Lavagetto, Gil Hodges, Ralph Branca, Carl Erskine, and Johnny Podres are all here in deed, and many in their own words. The interviews are extensive and moving, and they set this book apart from the many good books that simply recount the adventures and misadventures of the team. The book starts early in the last century and moves through the 1930s and early 1940s as the "bums" are turned into the winning teams of the late 1940s and 1950s. Golenbock describes the incredible collaboration of Branch Rickey, Happy Chandler, the Commissioner of Baseball The Commissioner of Baseball is the chief executive of Major League Baseball.[1] Under the direction of the Commissioner, the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball hires and maintains the sport's umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, and television contracts. , and Jackie Robinson in breaking through major league baseball's color line; the home runs, the pennants, the many heartbreaking losses to the Yankees in the various World Series, and, finally, the triumphant world championship in 1955. And, of course, he includes the inevitable, tragic conclusion, as a conniving lawyer named Walter O'Malley manages to wrest wrest
tr.v. wrest·ed, wrest·ing, wrests
1. To obtain by or as if by pulling with violent twisting movements: wrested the book out of his hands; wrested the islands from the settlers. the most profitable team in baseball from Branch Rickey and move it to Los Angeles.
Golenbock's interviews include many fans who decades later still remember their heartbreak when they realized that O'Malley was really going to be able to rake their team away. These interviews, in their intensity, bring the book to another level. Todd offers an excellent reading of this engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. book. His voice is clear and slow, and he has different voices for each of the players who are interviewed. Susan Offner, Teacher, Lexington H.S., Lexington, MA
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