* Review: Forever Blue

August 7, 2009

From journalists/sports guy Paul Oberjuerger, this considered assessment of the new Walter O’Malley/Brooklyn Dodgers book by Michael D’Antonio.

Upshot:

What makes this book important? The author had access to “tens of thousands of items” from the O’Malley family archive. And, naturally, that O’Malley-centric material tends to paint Walter O’Malley in a kinder light.

If only Walter O’Malley hadn’t always made me think of Lionel Barrymore playing the black-hearted banker “Old Man Potter” in the movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

You remember Mr. Potter. The man who owned everything in Bedford Falls except the virtuous and populist George Bailey. Old Man Potter was the man who was determined to make everyone crawl and beg.

Had to put that last part in; big Jimmy Stewart fan here.

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