{"product_id":"the-last-years-of-the-brooklyn-dodgers-a-history-1950-1957-9780786430062","title":"The Last Years of the Brooklyn Dodgers: A History, 1950-1957","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rudy Marzano\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Baseball - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This work, which picks up where the author's previous book, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s\u003c\/i\u003e (McFarland, 2005), left off, covers the Dodgers' final eight years in Brooklyn. Chapters carry the reader from the 1951 playoffs, when a late season collapse and Thomson's \"Shot Heard Round the World\" dealt Brooklyn a heartbreaking blow, through the 1955 World Series title, and finally to Walter O'Malley's controversial decision to move the team to Los Angeles. The author covers each season in-depth and assesses popular perceptions of the Dodgers, their players and owners, and considers O'Malley's culpability in the team's departure, which ended a string of 74 years in which Brooklyn had major league baseball.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46888088895639,"sku":"9780786430062","price":2826.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786430062.webp?v=1770258863","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-last-years-of-the-brooklyn-dodgers-a-history-1950-1957-9780786430062","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}