After Many a Summer

The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball

By: Robert E. Murphy

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Paperback | 1 March 2013

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By the mid-1950s, New York had been the unrivaled capital of America's national pastime for a century, a place where baseball was followed with truly fanatical fervor. The city's three teams-the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers-had over the previous decade rewarded their fans' devotion with stellar performances: from 1947 to 1957, one or more of these teams had played in the World Series every year but one. Yet on opening day 1958, the Giants and the Dodgers were gone. Their owners, Walter O'Malley and Horace Stoneham, had ripped them away from their longtime home and from the hearts of millions of devoted and passionate fans and taken the teams to California.

How did it happen? Who was to blame?

The relocation of the Giants and the Dodgers, an event that transcended sports and altered the landscape of New York City, has never been addressed with the depth, detail, and insight offered here by Robert E. Murphy. As informed as it is entertaining, After Many a Summer is rich in baseball lore, civic history, and the wheeling and dealing, alliances and betrayals, and sharp-elbowed machinations of big-city business and politics.

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Introduction	p. xi
Looking Backward, 1957-1845
Where Baseball Came From	p. 3
The Teams, the Ballparks	p. 11
Brooklyn: We Simply Live Here	p. 19
Stoneham and O'Malley: Sinful Fathers	p. 25
Stoneham and O'Malley: Favored Sons	p. 37
Citizen McLaughlin and Commissioner Moses	p. 55
Into the 1950s
Gold and Tarnish	p. 65
Mid-Century Movement: Veeck-as in Veeck-as in Veeck	p. 73
Rumblings in New York	p. 85
The Man in the Middle	p. 101
Inching Westward?	p. 127
A Stadium on Stilts	p. 145
Atlantic and Flatbush, Continued	p. 155
1957
New York 1957	p. 171
O'Malley in Winter	p. 180
Buying in Los Angeles, Looking All Around	p. 183
Opening Day	p. 193
A Trip to Flushing Meadow	p. 197
The Harlem and the Mississippi	p. 207
Enter Mayor Christopher	p. 213
Going? Where?	p. 215
In and Out of the Race	p. 228
In Congress	p. 231
A New Idea for Flushing Meadow	p. 243
The New York Giants-1883-1957	p. 257
Voices in the Twilight	p. 268
Summer's End	p. 273
Pafko at the Wall	p. 289
Obit	p. 293
Till the Last Man Is Out	p. 313
Aftermath: Sunshine and Shadow	p. 319
Acknowledgments	p. 337
A Note on Sources	p. 339
Bibliography	p. 345
Notes	p. 355
Index	p. 403
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