The Duke of Flatbush

Snider, Duke with Bill Gilbert

ISBN 10: 082172469X / ISBN 13: 9780821724699

Published by Zebra Books, New York, 1988

About this Item

Third Printing. Blue Cloth and White Board Covers with Gilt Lettering to spine; Covers are fairly clean with sharp corners; top and bottom edges of white boards have a thin line of light soiling/sunning; White Endpapers; Book Interior is clean and tight; 8vo; 288 pages; illustrated; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is clean and bright with no noted defects.

Seller Inventory # 20061210

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Duke of Flatbush
• Publisher: Zebra Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082172469X
• ISBN 13: 9780821724699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography

About this title

Synopsis

One of the leading players from an earlier era of baseball recalls his celebrated career and the well-known team he played for--and came to epitomize

Reviews

One of the "Boys of Summer," Snider joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the same year as Jackie Robinson, relocated with the team to Los Angeles, then played with the Mets and the San Francisco Giants in the twilight of his career. With coauthor Gilbert, a former Washington Post sportswriter, "The Dook," as he was dubbed in Flatbush, tells the story of those years excitingly and movingly. We read of Robinson's racial troubles, the inspiration that Dodgers' captain Pee Wee Reese provided for his colleagues and the camaraderie that characterized the team. But the memoir concentrates on the rivalry with the Yankees, whom the Dodgers met often through the 1950s in the World Series and whom they seldom defeated. The book also touches on Snider's post-playing period as a manager and later as a broadcaster in Montreal. Photos not seen by PW. 50,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo.
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