"Our Bums": The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture

by David Krell

Overview

Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don't know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandson of Branch Rickey), this book fills the void in Dodgers scholarship, exploring their impact on popular culture and revealing lesser-known details of the team's history.

Personal stories are included from the fans who embraced Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Erskine, Roy Campanella and other icons of Ebbets Field. Drawing on archival documents, contemporary press accounts and fan interviews, the author brings to life the magic of the Dodgers, chronicling in detail the genesis, glory and demise of the team that changed baseball--and America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476619736
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	10/29/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Krell is a freelance journalist, author and attorney. He has written for Memories and Dreams—The Official Magazine of the Baseball Hall of Fame; Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal and New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Journal. He is the chair of SABR’s Elysian Fields Chapter (northern New Jersey) and Spring Training Research Committee.
David Krell is a freelance journalist, author and attorney. He has written for Memories and Dreams--The Official Magazine of the Baseball Hall of Fame; Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal and New York State Bar Association's Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Journal. He is the chair of SABR's Elysian Fields Chapter (northern New Jersey) and Spring Training Research Committee.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Branch Rickey III
Preface
Prologue: “He sure hit the hell out of that one”
1st Inning: One Borough Under Blue
2nd Inning: “No grander name on earth than Brooklyn”
3rd Inning: Red, White, and Dodger Blue
4th Inning: “Democracy has finally invaded baseball”
5th Inning: Silencing the Lip
6th Inning: “I guess we weren’t meant to win it”
7th Inning: “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Brooklyn Dodgers are the champions of the world!”
8th Inning: From Happy to Hollywood
9th Inning: A Ravine of Gold
Epilogue: Vincit Qui Patitur
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

impossible to stop reading...and savoring...Krell’s writing is poetic”—Nine; “The team’s history, marks on the city and many references in popular culture during that time are told in this interesting book by David Krell. This book is one that anyone who has fond memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers...will have to add to his or her baseball library”—The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books.

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