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* Author profile: Michael D'Antonio

April 7, 2009 · 0 comments

The Los Angeles Daily New‘s Tom Hoffarth did this profile of Michael D’Antonio, author of Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and New York, in which he claims the team’s move to the West Coast it wasn’t all about the money. Key line: The [...]

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* Walter O'Malley and revisionist history

March 24, 2009 · 0 comments

A revised version of Henry D. Fetter’s unpublished paper that received a 2007 McFarland-SABR Research Award was recently published under the title “Revising the Revisionists: Walter O’Malley, Robert Moses and the End of the Brooklyn Dodgers” in the journal New York History (Vol. 89, no. 1, Winter 2008).

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* Let's hear it for the boys in blue

March 20, 2009 · 0 comments

Dodger Blue and umpires, that is. The Leonard Lopate Show on NPR today featured two baseball segments. In the first, Although Walter O’Malley has been dead for nearly 30 years his, the former Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers owner is still one of the most controversial persons ever associated with the sport. Michael D’Antonio’s exhaustive [...]

Tagged as: Brooklyn Dodgers, Bruce Weber, Michael D'Antonio, NPR, umpires

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* NPR blinded me with science

December 4, 2008 · 0 comments

How did the Brooklyn Dodgers get their name? According to a recent edition of NPR’s Studio 360, you can thank Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, who were battling it out to see whose system of electricity would prevail. Mike Daisey narrated a segment on “Tesla vs. Edison”: There was a trolley running in Brooklyn on [...]

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* Announcement: Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive, 1957

April 30, 2008 · 0 comments

Oh “great”; here we go again. Although the author doesn’t employ “greatest” or “best” in his title, The Last Great Pennant Race does have connotations that there haven’t been any since. I’m guessing thousands, if not millions, of fans would beg to differ.

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