A Review: ‘Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture’
Brooklyn BookBeat
Just in time for the holidays comes the perfect book to warm a true Brooklynite’s heart: “Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture” by Daid Krell, with a forward by Branch Rickey III. This book — published by McFarland; available only at www.mcfarlandpub.com — will be catnip to the loyal legion of global Brooklyn Dodgers fans from Bay Ridge to Beijing. Charles Ebbets, Iron Joe McGinnity, Casey Stengel (yes, before he was the Yankees’ skipper, he was a Dodger who, on the day Ebbets Field opened — April 15, 1913 — hit an inside-the-park home run to defeat, who else?, the Yankees), Preacher Roe, Leo “the Lip” Durocher, Red Barber, Dixie Walker, Sandy Koufax, Walter O’Malley (hiss…), James William “Junior” Gilliam and, of course, Jackie Robinson — they’re all here.