The Era, 1947-1957

"[The "Era"] is rich in anecdotes, and Kahn has a wonderful memory for the strange verbal exchanges that often pass for conversations when some combination of ballplayer, owner, and sports writer get together...This book will afford much pleasure, both for its writing and the memories it evokes." ("Choice"). "[Kahn] engagingly captures the flavor of the times by bringing to the fore the defining traits and relationships that added human dimension to the sport." ("Library Journal"). Celebrated sports writer Roger Kahn casts his gaze on the golden age of baseball, an unforgettable time when the game thrived as America's unrivaled national sport. The "Era" begins in 1947 with Jackie Robinson changing major league baseball forever by taking the field for the Dodgers. Dazzling, momentous events characterize the decade that followed-Robinson's amazing accomplishments; the explosion on the national scene of such soon-to-be legends as Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Bobby Thompson, Duke Snider, and Yogi Berra; Casey Stengel's crafty managing; the emergence of televised games; and the stunning success of the Yankees as they play in nine out of eleven World Series. The "Era" concludes with the relocation of the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, a move that shook the sport to its very roots. A journalist and magazine writer, Roger Kahn is the author of a number of baseball books, including "Good Enough to Dream" and "A Season in the Sun", both available in Bison Books editions.

ISBN 0803278055   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780803278059 (What's this?)   Pages 384 Publisher University of Nebraska Press   Volumes 1 Imprint University of Nebraska Press   Weight (grammes) 526 Format Paperback   Published in Lincoln Publication date 01 May 2002   Height (mm) 229 Non-book description 376 p. :   Width (mm) 154 Library of Congress 2001052240   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 796.357097309044   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Prologue		1
1		Leo, Larry, and Jackie, or Notes from the Hookworm Belt		9
2		Breakthrough at the Ballyards		42
3		A Guy Named Joe		63
4		Birth of the Bombers		79
5		The Greatest Ballgame Ever Played		100
6		Larry's Leavin'; Leo's Weavin'		132
7		The Second Coming		157
8		The Red and the Black		187
9		Field Marshal Casey von Stengel		208
10		Scouts, Center Fielders, and Schemers		241
11		Monte, Mickey, Clay, and Joe and Marilyn		281
12		Recessional		298
		Afterword		339
		Notes and Comment on Sources		343
		A Brief Thanksgiving		348
		Bibliography		350
		Index		359

"Kahn weaves such personal information into his rich descriptions of thrilling regular-season, playoff and World Series games. And in doing so he endows the players, managers and owners with more dynamic dimensions than any baseball writer of his generation. The men in The Era are ballplayers, not deities; and it takes the unerring strength of a straight shooter like Kahn to remind nostalgic baseball fans of that simple fact."-Chicago Tribune

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