Boys of Summer
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The first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. What follows only gets better, deeper, more sentimental, and more bittersweet. The team, of course, is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese and others written by Roger Kahn.
$15.00- paperback
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Transport yourself to the year 1927 and "Read all About Them" with 200 pages of "Murderer's Row" as you've never seen them before...It's all here from the newspapers that covered the team.
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Praying for Gil Hodges
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A memoir of the 1955 World Series and one family's love of the Brooklyn Dodgers.Written with power and clarity, this is a brilliant work capturing the majesty of baseball, the issue of race in America, and the love that one young boy, his parents, and the borough of Brooklyn had for their team.
$24.95-hardcover
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Remember when The Giants were the New York Giants..And we put in all in "The Book" covering those exciting years from 1901-1957..200 pages of Heyday of the New York Giants.
These are the New York Yankees from 1901-1961..From Coombs and Marquard to Ruth and Gehrig to DiMaggio and Rizzuto to Mantle and Maris..200 pages direct from the Caren Archive and other newspapers.