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Manhattan at Mid-Century

An Oral History

Manhattan at Mid-Century( )
Author: Frommer, Harvey
Frommer, Myrna Katz
ISBN:978-1-58979-905-9
Publication Date:Sep 2013
Publisher:Taylor Trade Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

Experience the mosaic of mid-century Manhattan in this exuberant oral history that begins in the post-World War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly went bust. This is the story of a time when great ocean liners were docked in the Hudson River ports, Checker cabs hurtled across a two-way Fifth Avenue, ......

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Frommer, Harvey (Author)


Harvey Frommer was a sports historian who wrote extensively about the Yankees and collaborated with his wife on lively oral histories of Brooklyn, the Catskills and Broadway. Mr. Frommer had a fascination with baseball that began in Brooklyn during the 1940s and ¿50s, when the Dodgers, Yankees and Giants dazzled New York City with players like Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays. In his book New York City Baseball: The Last Golden Age, 1947-1957 (1980), Mr. Frommer described a three-team universe captured by radio.He contunued writng for 40 years. His dozens of books include an exploration of Robinson¿s breaking baseball¿s modern color barrier in 1947 and Shoeless Joe Jackson¿s banishment from baseball for his supposed role in fixing the 1919 World Series with seven Chicago White Sox teammates.

He also wrote autobiographies of Hall of Fame personalities like the fireballing pitcher Nolan Ryan and the Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett. Mr. Frommer focused on the Yankees in the 1990s with books like The New York Yankee Encyclopedia (1997); A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball¿s Greatest Team (2002); and Five O¿Clock Lightning (2008), about the slugging 1927 team led by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

Harry Frommer passed away on August 1, 2019, from metastatic lung cancer at his home in Lyme, N.H. He was 83 years old.

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