Baseball goes west : the Dodgers, the Giants, and the shaping of the major leagues
(2018)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
796.35764/MITCHELL,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2018]
DESCRIPTION
viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781606353592, 1606353594, 9781606353592
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Baseball then and now -- The oldest rivalry in baseball -- New York in the 1950s -- Baseball in the West Coast -- The move -- First seasons in California -- After Mays and Koufax -- Globalization, PEDs, and the Rivalry since 1990 -- The Giants and Dodgers today
"This book discusses the effects of two baseball teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, moving to the West Coast in the 1950s"--