Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field And the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers
by Bob McGee
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Author: Bob McGeeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-25
ISBN: 0813536014
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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Book Review: "There was a ballpark . . ."---Frank Sinatra
Summary: 5 Stars
THE GREATEST BALLPARK EVER is a paean and a song of love to Ebbets Field, home of the "original America's team," the Brooklyn Dodgers, from 1913 to 1957. Author Bob McGee writes a detailed and crisp history of the team and the place, but far beyond the FACTS surrounding the history of the physical structure of the park, and the men who played there, he manages to capture---amazingly enough, and very well---the SYMBOLOGICAL importance of the Brooklyn Dodgers and their home in the American, and particularly Brooklynite, psyche.
Of particular joy is the fact that McGee refuses to fall for the revisionist dreck presently being touted by the O'Malleys and their supporters, that "The Big Oom" had no choice but to hijack the Dodgers from Brooklyn in 1958. He relegates their arguments quite properly to the floor of the horse stall where they (and Walter) belong.
If McGee's symbologizing of Ebbets Field sounds awfully highfalutin', it isn't. McGee loves the IDEA of Ebbets Field, and in communicating that love, recreates the ballpark in words, an almost impossible task, considering that, like much of his reading audience, he never experienced the reality. That he could succeed at all is a measure of how fine this book is. THE GREATEST BALLPARK EVER comes VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
---Order me dogs and beer. Here comes the Duke of Flatbush to the plate---
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