The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together

by Michael Shapiro

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A chronicle of the Brooklyn Dodgers and their last great season retraces this legendary team's final pennant and their difficult, subsequent move to Los Angeles.

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2 reviews

ehines 388 reviews

The kind of book that leaves you wanting more--more info on that 1956 season, more about this team, more about the civic leaders who neglected & wooed the Dodgers, more about the fans and the neighborhoods they came from. Shapiro does a good job here--keeping the narrative short enough to be an easy read, but complete enough to sell this as a story to be concerned about from a number of different perspectives. Deserving of a less-structured, fact- & anecdote-filled follow-up. Shapiro obviously has the material to do so.

Nov 26, 2010

xestobium25 55 reviews

the 1956 Dodgers and some cultural history—those really were the good ol’ days

May 20, 2008