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Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers | 
 enlarge | Author: Maury Allen
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 373475
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 216
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 1582619433
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357
EAN: 9781582619439
ASIN: 1582619433
Publication Date: March 2005
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In "Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers, Allen has captured the emotion, the drama and the sweet reverie of what many baseball people and fans consider the greatest sports triumph ever, the 1955 Brooklyn Series win over the Yankees. It was the one and only Brooklyn championship for the team filled with Hall of Famers like Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and even fringe lefty Tommy Lasorda. Two years after the title the team moved from Brooklyn's cozy Ebbets Field to laconic Los Angeles. All of the 11 surviving members of that historic baseball team contributed their poignant and personal recollections of that season that warmed the baseball world and sent millions of memorable moments across America, memories that last to this day in millions of homes across the country. Two game winner Johnny Podres, the handsome bachelor, recalls how he drove to the game from his aunt's home in nearby Staten Island a few days after his 23rd birthday and promised his aging teammates a World Series victory. He delivered with a 2-0 triumph. Historic baseball figure Jackie Robinson and supportive teammate pee Wee Reese, knowing their time for titles was short, reached their ultimate goal. Duke Snider, Carl Erskine, Clem Labine, Don Newcombe and all the rest of Dem Bums eased the pain of Brooklyn's millions with that emotional victory. Allen has talked to all of the Brooklyn 1955 survivors and to the women who carry the torch today for the fallen Dodgers, such as Rachel Robinson and Joan Hodges, for memories of that moment and the impact on their lives half a century later. Other significant figures, such as broadcaster Tom Brokaw, opera legend RobertMerrill, opponents Willie Mays, Whitey Ford and Stan (The Man) Musial recall their days as Brooklyn fans, opposing players or just Ebbets Field fanatics. This is the stirring, funny, romantic, touching, historic story of one team in one town in one time that has lasted across the decades. The Brooklyn Dodgers of 1955 were an epic collection of talented athletes and heroic men.
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 "Just gimme one run. That's all I'll need today."---Johnny Podres June 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Maury Allen is a Dean among American sportswriters and a Brooklyn Dodger fan to the marrow. This is his first book on Dem Bums, written in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Brooklyn's historic only World Series victory.
Allen retells all the old baseball legends in this book, particularly the ones that made the Brooklyn Dodgers such a memorable team even in the years when they were not a particularly successful team.
The buildup to the Dodgers' era of glory, beginning with the appointment of Larry McPhail as General Manager in 1939, peaking with the phenomenally unmatched Dodger team of 1953 and the World Series victors of 1955, and ending with the Brooklyn Dodgers' ignominious transformation into the Los Angeles National League Baseball Club at the hands of the rebarbative Walter "If You Got Two Bullets And Got Three Targets Then Shoot Him Twice!" O'Malley in 1958, is punctuated with reminiscences of the (circa 2005 then) eleven surviving 1955 Dodgers and their sometime opponents, men like Stan The Man Musial and Ralph Kiner, men who all agree that playing at Ebbets Field was a unique and unforgettable highlight of their playing careers.
BROOKLYN REMEMBERED: THE 1955 DAYS OF THE DODGERS is a nostalgic visit to the high point of what Roger Kahn calls The Era, a time so sorely missed, even by those of us who weren't there.
A VERY NICE READ December 25, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
AUTHOR MAURY ALLEN TAKES US BACK TO 1955, THE YEAR THE BROOKLYN DODGERS FINALLY WON THE WORLD SERIES. HE INTERVIEWS THE 11 REMAINING PLAYERS AND BRINGS BACK SOME GREAT NOSTALGIA. SOME OF THE SURVING PLAYERS ARE KOUFAX, NEWCOMBE, SNIDER AND GAME SEVEN WINNER PODRES. THE STORIES ARE INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. I ENJOYED THIS AND RECOMMEND IT FOR ALL DODGER FANS AND FOR BASEBALL FANS WHO WANT TO LEARN ABOUT A SLICE OF BASEBALL HISTORY.
 Great Subject, Mediocre Book February 3, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was a big disappointment, starting with its awkward subtitle. At first reading it looks like "the one-thousand-nine-hundred-and fifty-five days of the Dodgers," as if the team had only lasted that long! "The Days of the 1955 Dodgers" would have been better.
But the big problem with this book isn't the title-- it's Maury Allen's slapdash and dull writing. Hard to believe this guy was a successful sportswriter for so many years. His prose is careless, rambling, repetitious, and lack-luster. There are even some spelling errors-- the kind of thing we've come to expect from 20- and 30-something sportswriters, but that you don't expect to find in a writer of Allen's generation.
What saves the book and makes it worth reading-- and the reason I gave it three stars rather than two-- are the many extensive quotations of surviving Dodger players from the 1955 team, and others associated with the team that season. Thanks to Allen's long-established credentials as a sportswriter, he was able to get "face time" with many former players and team officials who are difficult or impossible for others to interview. Ever try to set up an interview with Yogi Berra or Willie Mays? As they say in Brooklyn, "Fuggeddaboudit!"
This is a pleasant enough read for Brooklyn Dodger lovers, but that wonderful team and that magical year deserve better than they get in this so-so volume.
 Good Read January 16, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
For those of us still in the Brooklyn area and those who ventured far away, this book takes you back to the care-free days of the "Brooklyn Bombers." Go for it!
A LOOK BACK AT THE MAGICAL 1955 BROOKLYN TEAM October 17, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
THE BOOK GIVES YOU INSIGHT INTO THE 1955 SEASON AND WHAT WINNING THE WORLD SERIES WAS LIKE, THROUGH THE MEMORIES OF THE SURVIVING ELEVEN MEMBERS OF THAT TEAM AND OTHER FOLKS WHO RECALL THE STRUGGLE AND EUPHORIA OF WINNING THE FALL CLASSIC AT LAST!BBOOKLYN DODGER FANS AND BASEBALL HISTORIANS WILL ENJOY THE STORY OF THAT MAGICAL SEASON!
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