If there ever was a place in America where a city and its baseball team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn.  The legacy of this relationship comes down to us in stories of childhoods spent at Ebbets Field and in the stories of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, whose courage changed the face of America.  Baseball in Brooklyn goes back to the beginning of the sport, when a young city embraced a new game and, like missionaries, carried it to the nation.  Brooklyn Dodgers carries us from the birth of baseball in the streets of Brooklyn through the decades in Flatbush when Ebbets Field was the center of the Brooklyn community.  That was a time when the players lived in the neighborhoods not far from the ballpark, side by side with their followers.  Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, and Johnny Podres all make appearances in this book that tells the story of a great team’s beginning and concludes with the heart-wrenching move of the franchise to the West Coast after the 1957 season.​
Softcover, 6 x 9, 128 pgs.