Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword by Carl Erskine
I. Warm-Ups
In the Beginning
James L. Terry
The Atlantics Triumphant
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The Fields of Brooklyn
Burt Solomon
II. Early Innings
History Lesson
Arthur Daley
Superbas Open Season with a 1-0 Shutout Defeat
Thomas Rice
Uncle Robbie and the Brooks
Arthur Daley
Brooklyn v. Boston in 26 Innings
Ralph D. Blanpied
The Unbelievable Babe Herman
John Lardner
The First Night Major League Game in the Metropolitan Area
Roscoe McGowen
The Ole Redhead Comes to Brooklyn
Red Barber and Robert Creamer
When Ebbets Field Was a Bad Joke
Harold Parrott
Hurricane Larry
Donald Honig
Owen Drops Third Strike
Harold Parrott
Baseball Goes to
Frank Graham
Havana: 1942
Donald Honig
Warm-ups
John C. Chalberg
Negro Ace Outstanding Prospect
Harold C. Burr
1946: Season of Tumult
William Marshall
The Petition
Harold Parrott
The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete
W.C. Heinz
Hilda, Leo, and Pistol Pete
Donald Honig
The Dodgers and Brooklyn's Ethnic Isolation
Carl E. Prince
III. Middle Innings
Brooklyn, 1947
Scott Simon
Jackie Robinson's First Major League Baseball Game
Jimmy Cannon
July 18, 1947
Christopher Renino
Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie!
Dick Young
Maybe Rickey Is a Genius After
Tommy Holmes
Red Barber's Call of the Gionfriddo Catch, October 5, 1947
Radio Broadcast
1948-Leo Crosses the Bridge
Gerald Eskenazi
Hodges Erupts
Dick Young
My Life in Baseball
Robin Roberts and C. Paul Rogers, III
The Emancipation of Jackie Robinson
Milton Gross
The
Alan Lelchuk
Robby's HR, Grab Force '51 Playoff
Dick Young
Character, Dignity, Courage
Marino Amoruso
What Winning the Pennant Means to Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle
Dodgers Defeat Yanks; Erskine Fans
Red Smith
Brooklyns Lose
William Heuman
Walt Alston
Peter Golenbock
Pee Wee Reese Night
Tot Holmes
Who's a Bum!
Leo O'Mealia
Dodgers Champs! Podres Wins, 2-0
Joe Trimble
-And Joy Reigned Unrefined
Art Smith
Erskine Only Dodger with Pair of No-Hitters
Tot Holmes
Over the River
Red Smith
Last Pennant in Brooklyn
Jimmy Cannon
The Man Was Perfect
Shirley Povich
The Longest Night
Michael Shapiro
Jackie Robinson: More Than a Ballplayer
J. Ronald Oakley
A Shortstop in Kentucky
Roger Kahn
IV. Seventh Inning Stretch
In the Cold Gray Dawn of the Morning After
Tommy Holmes
1951 and the Miracle Pennant Race
James D. Szalontai
The Rivalry
Roger Kahn
Last Chapter
Red Smith
V. Late Innings
Overture from the Coast
Neil J. Sullivan
Let's Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn
Samuel Denoff, William Persky and Roy Ross
Walt, You Can Go, but Own Up as to
Jimmy Cannon
Twilight of the Bums
Robert Creamer
Take Them Away, L.A.!
Chris Kieran
It's Official-Dodgers Go to Los Angeles
Tommy Holmes
VI. The Last Out
30 Years of Perfidy
New York Daily News
How The Boys of Summer Got Started
Roger Kahn
Wreck-Ball Caps Ebbets Field
Dana Mozley
There Used to Be a Ballpark
Joe Raposo
I'm Sorry They Left
Red Barber and Robert Creamer
Appendix: Brooklyn Dodgers in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Index
