The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers |
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| Editor:
| Spatz, Lyle
Bouchard, Maurice
Levin, Leonard |
| Foreword by:
| Langill, Mark |
| Author:
| Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), |
| Series title: | Memorable Teams in Baseball History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-3992-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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Of all the teams in the annals of baseball, only a select few can lay claim to historic significance. One of those teams is the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, the first racially integrated Major League team of the twentieth century. This book is the first to offer biographies of everyone on that incomparable team as well as accounts of the moments and events that marked the Dodgers' 1947 season.
Of all the teams in the annals of baseball, only a select few can lay claim to historic significance. One of those teams is the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, the first racially integrated Major League team of the twentieth century. This book is the first to offer biographies of everyone on that incomparable team as well as accounts of the moments and events that marked the Dodgers' 1947 season.