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6 reviews
Neil Sullivan

Oxford University Press, USA, 1989

Highly objective and wothwhile
I was a sad 10-year-old Brooklyn kid when I learned the dodgers were going to leave us. Like most everyone around, I tended to blame Walter O'Malley's greed. Yet in the end it may have been O'Malley's vanity more than his greed that was most responsible for the fateful decision. As Neil Sullivan so well points out, a strong case can be made that O'Malley didn't really want to leave at first. ...

The Dodgers Move West

1 review
Sullivan Neil J

Oxford Univ Pres, 1987

An interesting story but I would have liked a little more analysis
This is a decent urban history book that covers the reasons for the movement of people from the east to the west coast. It follows the baseball team the dodgers as they decide to get out of New York and head to Los Angeles. It understands the significance of the automobile and the attraction in the post world war 2 era to move towards the west coast. The widespread use of the airplane makes it ...