Bums, Peter Golenbock
Bums, Peter Golenbock
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Bums
An Oral History Of The Brooklyn Dodgers

Author: Peter Golenbock

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Unabridged: 19 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2005

Synopsis

Before the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in baseball. In Bums, bestselling author Peter Golenbock presents a fascinating oral history of baseball heroes and an era gone by.

About Peter Golenbock

Peter Golenbock, a graduate of NYU Law School, has written sixty-five books, ten of which have been New York Times bestsellers. In addition to his bestsellers about sports and with sports figures, he has also written Presumed Guilty with Jose Baez, the attorney for Casey Anthony, The Chairman, written with Jim Greer, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, and In The Country of Brooklyn, a book about the liberal strain emanating from there.

Reviews

Goodreads review by noisy penguin on May 24, 2007

This book was awesome for a Dodger loving baseball history nut like myself. Not just about the team itself, but about Brooklyn, the fans, the regulars that roamed the stands at home games...Golenbock paints a really clear picture. I can imagine sitting in the stands and hearing Hilda Chester roaming......more

Goodreads review by Russell on March 31, 2010

This was a nice history of the Dodgers before they went to LA. Definitely some language, but a lot of neat history about Jackie Robinson, Carl Furillo, Pee Wee Reese, and all the rest of the players. I loved how much people lived for baseball back then. I think almost everyone in Brooklyn was heartb......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on October 10, 2009

Bring this book back into print! This is one of the best baseball books I've ever read - over 600+ pages of oral history showing what a whacked out sport baseball used to be. The crazies, drunks, kooks and goofs straight from the horses' mouths.......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 02, 2018

It is tough for me to feel neutral about the Brooklyn Dodgers. I have a love/hate relationship with them and their history but it is probably similar to the Red Sox lore. The team itself is something I respect and can into, but those that surround the team, their extremely literary fans who overly r......more

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