Mark Rucker

Brooklyn Dodgers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Brooklyn Dodgers: The story of a baseball franchise that became family with its city.If there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball franchise were as close as family, it was Brooklyn. The legacy of this relationship chronicles childhoods spent at Ebbets Field to the stories of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, whose courage helped change the face of America. Baseball in Brooklyn goes back to the beginning of the sport, when a young city embraced a new game and, like missionaries, carried it to the nation. Brooklyn Dodgers carries us from the birth of baseball in the streets of Brooklyn through the decades in Flatbush when Ebbets Field was the center of the Brooklyn community during a time when the players lived in the neighborhoods not far from the ballpark, side-by-side with their followers. In additon to Robinson, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges, and Johnny Podres all make appearances in this exciting selection of photographs - a large part of which is dedicated to those teams of the 1950s and their irrepressible fans. Author Mark Rucker tells the story from that birth and concludes with the heart-wrenching move of the franchise to the West Coast after the 1957 season.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439611456
• Artikelnr.: 40007396

Autorenporträt

Mark Rucker spent a fulfilling and successful thirty-two-year career working globally in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and regionally at the Walt Disney World Company. He moved rapidly through fifteen different roles of increasing responsibility, becoming global Vice President of Experience Planning & Integration, Park Operations, Lodging, and Operations Systems Integration. Today, he's a Board Advisor to the University of Missouri in their school of Hospitality Management. Mark Rucker lives in beautiful Golden, Colorado, with his wife, Stephanie. When he's not consulting, you can find him babysitting his first granddaughter, serving in his community, writing his next book, hiking, and snow-skiing in the Colorado Rockies.