When Baseball Returned to Brooklyn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Baseball Returned to Brooklyn write by Ed Shakespeare. This book was released on 2003-05-13. When Baseball Returned to Brooklyn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Major league baseball has a long, rich history in Brooklyn. From the time Brooklyn started play in 1884 until their move west to Los Angeles following the 1957 season, the Dodgers and their predecessors were the emotional center of the borough's diverse population. But Brooklyn would be without a professional team until June of 2001, when the Cyclones took the field in Coney Island as the Mets' affiliate for the New York-Penn League. This work follows the rookie-level club from its formation through it first season. Brooklyn Dodgers Carl Erskine, Duke Snider, Clem Labine, Johnny Podres, Ralph Branca, Joe Pignatano and Clyde King comment on their own minor league days, and their days in Brooklyn. Also included are interviews of Cyclones players and fans of both teams.
The Brooklyn Cyclones
The Brooklyn Cyclones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brooklyn Cyclones write by Ben Osborne. This book was released on 2004-04-01. The Brooklyn Cyclones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When professional baseball returned to Brooklyn in 2001, fans were jubilant and the media swarmed. After losing the Brooklyn Dodgers to California 44 years ago, Brooklyn baseball fans could once again claim a team of their own: the Cyclones, a Class A affiliate of the New York Mets. The Brooklyn Cyclones: Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island recounts that first season of the Cyclones. From the construction of the incredible Keyspan Park at Coney Island to their improbable successes on the field, Ben Osborne tells the story of the Cyclones' delicate first year of operation. We see the story up close and personal through the eyes of two very different young men. The first is Anthony Otero, who was raised in a Coney Island housing project and loves baseball, but has never seen a game in person until the Cyclones land in his neighborhood. The second is Brett Kay, a young man from California who has never been to New York, until he becomes the catcher for the Brooklyn Cyclones. From the plans of politicians like Rudy Giuliani and Howard Golden, to the poverty of Coney Island's citizens, The Brooklyn Cyclones reveals the stories behind the headlines to show that the reality of creating a new sports team often involves broken promises and shattered dreams. Osborne includes chapters on the Cyclones' rivalry with the Staten Island Yankees, the Cyclones' chances of capturing the New York-Penn League title, and an epilogue updating Kay's, Otero's, and the Cyclones' progress through the 2003 season. Ultimately, Ben Osborne shows how, for these two young men, the Brooklyn Cyclones created dreams the same way the Brooklyn Dodgers allowed the boys of Flatbush to dream about one day playing in the Big Leagues.
Return to Glory
Return to Glory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Return to Glory write by . This book was released on 2002. Return to Glory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America
The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America write by Lyle Spatz. This book was released on 2012-04. The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells the story of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team.
Before Brooklyn
Before Brooklyn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Before Brooklyn write by Ted Reinstein. This book was released on 2021-11-01. Before Brooklyn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilman’s much-needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players would get no closer to the major leagues. It was a lost battle in a war that was ultimately won by Robinson in 1947. This book tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country. It also reminds us that the first black player in professional baseball was not Jackie Robinson but Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, and that for a time integrated teams were not that unusual. And then, as segregation throughout the country hardened, the exclusion of blacks in baseball quietly became the norm, and the battle for integration began anew.
