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DMcDHey, Ted Z. Here's a couple more books on the subject of NY baseball from 1947-1957 that you would probably enjoy. The first is "The Glory Days: New York Baseball: 1947-1957", edited by John Thorn. It is the companion book to an exhibit which just finished at the Museum of the City of New York. I was lucky enough to catch it when I was in NYC for a few days this past autumn; it was wonderful and the book does it great justice. I hope some of you New York guys took in the show. (MCNY link to exhibit with link to order book: http://tinyurl.com/26d2qz ). Following are a few snapshots I took and some scans from the book .
1) Exhibit entrance 2) Main Room 3) Seats from Yankee Stadium, Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds 4) Moider dem Yanks
Clem Labine in a crouch. He pitched in the Mets very first game.
Don Zimmer wasn't always a hundred years old.
Fireman Joe Page
That Mays fellow
The second book is "Summer in the City: New York Baseball 1947-1957" by Vic Ziegel. (Amazon http://tinyurl.com/yvhpvq ). Herein are 189 large black-and-white photos from the NY Daily News along with the newspaper captions from back in the day and modern commentary. Hadn't seen many of these photos before. Some real beauts. Both books are keepers.
Yankee catchers Aaron Robinson, Ralph Houk, Yogi Berra Sept '47
Bases loaded single by Mize "shoves defeat down the throats of the Brooklyn Dodgers," Game 3, '49 WS
Mapes safe at home, Sept '50. Only guy missing in this photo is the beer vendor.
This old, tech-impaired dinosaur dude just put up a MySpace page. It's a work-in-progress but I have uploaded, amongst other things, photos of our trip to the East Coast this fall. This includes more pictures of our visit to "The Glory Days" exhibit, a quick look at the Burdick display at the MMA (only stumbled across in an out-of-the-way hallway whilst looking for the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting; kinda sad), and our visit to the BBHoF and Cooperstown. Unbeknownst to me until after I loaded all the photos is that one needs a MySpace account in order to see my page - probably would have been better off in a Photobucket-type venue - so if you have said account and are interested use this URL, hit "pics" and then hit the "Baseball" album. http://www.myspace.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika
Pau