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Baseball once held a lovely sway. There were 16 major league teams, eight to a league. Below that, hundreds of minor league teams and town teams were flourishing. In Oklahoma, you could root for the Ponca City Eagles. In Brooklyn, you could pull for the Dodgers or, more parochially, for...
Kahn's ability to avoid the mawkish trivialities shows in his two recent books. The first, The Boys of Summer, was a story of his love affair with the old Brooklyn Dodgers, the Ebbets Field titans like Snider and Furillo and Robinson, and how they braved the autumn of their...
KAHN WEAVES all of these different contests into a neat pile of friendly but telling stories, a chronicle of a baseball season spent roaming the country with the boys and the boys-turned-men who make up baseball. There is Walter O'Malley, cigar-puffing grandee of the Los Angeles...
The Dodgers won 22 of their first 26 games, the quickest start of any major league team since 1955, when baseball was still played in Brooklyn. That Dodger team lost only two of their first 24, coasted to the pennant, then whipped the dreaded Yankees for their first-ever World...
Now 49, Lasorda is in his rookie season as manager of the Dodgers. After 27 years as a spear carrier in the organization, he is enjoying the big job. Says he: "Managing during this streak has been a lot more fun than it was watching from the bench back in...