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"The 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers were one of baseball's most storied teams, featuring such immortals as Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, and Roy Campanella. The love between team and borough was equally storied, an iron bond of loyalty forged through years of adversity and sometimes legendary ineptitude.
Coming off their first World Series triumph ever in 1955 against the hated Yankees, the Dodgers would defend their crown against the Milwaukee Braves and the Cincinnati Reds in a six-month neck-and-neck contest until the last day of the season, one of the most thrilling pennant races in history.".
"But as The Last Good Season so richly relates, all was not well under the surface. The Dodgers were an aging team at the tail end of greatness, and Brooklyn was a place caught up in rapid and profound urban change. From a cradle of white ethnicity, it was being transformed into a racial patchwork, including Puerto Ricans and blacks from the South who flocked to Ebbets Field to watch the Dodgers' black stars.
The institutions that defined the borough - the Brooklyn Eagle, the Brooklyn Navy Yard - had vanished, and only the Dodgers remained. And when their shrewd, dollar-squeezing owner Walter O'Malley began casting his eyes elsewhere in the absence of any viable plan to replace the aging Ebbets Field and any support from the all-powerful urban czar Robert Moses, the days of the Dodgers in Brooklyn were clearly numbered."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together
March 9, 2004, Broadway, Broadway Books
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0767906888 9780767906883
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The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together
March 18, 2003, Doubleday
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0385501528 9780385501521
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"The first time Billy Kleinsasser saw Walter O'Malley was in November of 1955, at Princeton, when O'Malley had come looking for a new ballpark."
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