Glory Days New York Baseball 1947-57

"The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957 is a companion to an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. With brilliant essays by renowned baseball writers and more than 350 images of the game and its artifacts, this book recreates the era the way it was and we were, only yesterday." "Like the exhibition, this book forms a "people's hall of fame" for baseball and the city in those years, a museum of memories. In a banged-up, dog-eared baseball card that has rippled in the wind of bicycle spokes, real life still resides. And so it does in our legion of improbable survivors, from a Knothold Gang membership card to an Ebbets Field usher's pin, from a 1948 Jo DiMaggio jersey with a black armband honoring Babe Ruth to the home plate torn from the playing field at the Giants' last game at the Polo Grounds in 1957." "Among the survivors unearthed for this book are color photographs from private archives, never published or not seen in the years since their only appearance. The Museum's LOOK magazine archives supplied many wonders, while others have come from the treasure trove of SPORT magazine, beloved of all boys back then; the vault of Barney Stein, who photographed the Dodgers so beautifully; and the archive of Hy Peskin, perhaps the greatest of all sports photographers. The pictures tell their thousands of words, from the artifacts waft the aroma of the past, and the writers tell the stories that pictures can't."--BOOK JACKET.Thorn, John is the author of 'Glory Days New York Baseball 1947-57', published 2007 under ISBN 9780061344046 and ISBN 0061344044.