New York Baseball in 1951

The Dodgers, the Giants, the Yankees and the Telescope

Rudy Marzano (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2011
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-4830-2 (ISBN)

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This work covers one of the most controversial pennant races in baseball history. The Brooklyn Dodgers were leading the pennant race by 13 games in early August when the New York Giants installed a powerful telescope in one of their clubhouse windows and aimed it at the opposing catcher, some 500 feet away, enabling a Giants coach to steal the signs and signal them to the Giants bullpen, which would then flash them to the Giants batter. Thus at home games every Giants hitter knew what was coming, and Bobby Thomson was ready to hit the pennant-deciding home run. Was it an honest race or did the Giants cheat? Amazingly the facts behind this scheme remained secret for 50 years, until 2001.

Rudy Marzano started his career as a reporter on the Newark Evening News after graduating from Rutgers University. He retired from AT&T where he was a press relations manager, writer and editor. He lives in Point Pleasant at the Jersey shore.

Table of Contents

Introduction

One: January

Two: February

Three: March

Four: April

Five: May

Six: June

Seven: July

Eight: August

Nine: September

Ten: October

Appendix: The Telescope Scheme

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	24 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-4830-X / 078644830X
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-4830-2 / 9780786448302
Zustand	Neuware