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Summer in the City: New York Baseball 1947-1957
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by Vic Ziegel and Claus Guglberger
Sales Rank: 198706
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 192 pages
Published by: Abradale March 1, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0810982579
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0810982574
Book Dimensions:
10.4 x 9.8 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Book Description
Between 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, and 1957, when the Dodgers and the New York Giants played their last season in the East, New York baseball teams appeared in ten World Series. In seven of those years, either the Giants or the Dodgers vied for the championship with the lordly Yankees. These were truly the glory years of New York baseball, when the city breathlessly followed the game in the tabloids rather than on the tube. And the New York Daily News, the nation's largest newspaper, had the best photographers, the best equipment, and the best field position to record the action, bringing the Art of baseball photography to its highest pitch.
Accompanied by an evocative text by veteran sportswriter Vic Ziegel, the dramatic photographs (complete with their colorful original captions)-featuring such superstars as Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays-allow the reader to follow year by year the course of baseball's most exciting decade in the world's greatest city.
About The Author
Vic Ziegel was a baseball beat writer at the New York Post for six years and has written Sports columns for the New York Daily News, Rolling Stone, Inside Sports, and New York magazine. He has won two Red Smith writing awards and the Nat Fleischer Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in New Rochelle, New York. Claus Guglberger is a photo editor who has been working with the Daily News photo archive for the past seven years.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Summer in the City: New York Baseball 1947-1957 (Hardcover)
There have been numerous books written on New York baseball, but, at least for me, it is the photographs that make this a unique baseball book. I have vivid memories of the World Series of the 1950's, and all except 1959 involved at least one of the teams in New York City. The New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers series were classics, and will always be remembered. I enjoyed the descriptive writing of New York Daily News writer Dick Young. When Duke Snider made a wide turn at 3rd base in coming home, Young wrote, "Duke, who is a poor base-runner for a man of his superior speed, took the scenic route home...He was out by some twenty feet." Many of the photos brought back the names of players and umpires of my youth. The photographs illustrate how small the dugouts were in that era. Fans are predominantly dressed in suit coats, ties, and fedoras. Also of interest are photos of fans leaving the park via the playing field, and photographers near home plate photographing the action. Photographs of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds show views from above the playing field in addition to close ups of the center field area of the Polo Grounds and the center and right field areas of Ebbets Field with the advertising on the wall are also of interest. I am a fan of the Detroit Tigers, but I will always have precious memories of those historic New York teams in addition to the arenas they played in. The text is nice, but it is the photos that make this book unique.
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