The Golden Age
New York Baseball in Its Glory
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Kevin Baker
After the war, New York seemed indestructible, the invincible hub of finance, fashion, art, power—and baseball.
The Golden Age transports readers through the next three decades, from 1945 to the mid-1970s: a time when the gods lived among us (but were still paid like human beings), and the legends on the Giants and Dodgers and Yankees walked and even played stickball in the streets of Washington Heights, Brighton Beach, and Staten Island; the era of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson, Yogi Berra, Casey Stengel, Sandy Amorós, and so many more. But hubris and changing global economics pushed New York to the edge, as corruption, crime, deindustrialization, drug addiction, riots, and near ruin descended upon the city. The Giants and the Dodgers fled, convinced that New York was finished, one more aging eastern city that would never recover.
Onto this stage stepped the Mets, a living satire of a baseball team, but one perfect for the moment. Their dark horse run to the 1969 World Series injected a new energy and hope into a city plagued by despair, and the sport has never been the same since.
In this riveting and rollicking ode to America’s favorite pastime, Baker pays homage to the sport’s indomitable home city, the catalyst for baseball’s rapid changes, including a huge influx of money to the sport and the desegregation of the game in 1945, when Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers. From the diamonds and bleachers to the streets of Jackson Heights and Arthur Avenue, to the new wonder of television, and the dazzling nightclubs where ballplayers drank and brawled in their off-field hours, this character-driven portrayal of baseball’s golden years will leave die-hard fans and those who have just discovered the game charmed, fascinated, and nostalgic.
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“Documenting the vivid New York baseball era that followed the conclusion of WW2, Ken Burns called it ‘The Capital of Baseball,’ and it was that. Like Burns, Kevin Baker celebrates the Game, and also deftly places it in sociological and cultural context. The subject is rich and still resonates. The teams, the ballparks, the distinctive fan bases, the dramatic pennant races, the nearly annual World Series in New York, and many of the greatest and most significant players in the history of the Game. It was truly a Baseball Golden Age. And on these pages, that Golden Age comes back to life.” —Bob Costas, broadcaster
“An instant classic! Baker brings a generation of mythic names back to life on the streets, bars, and ball fields of the city that invented baseball as we know it. Epic and glorious, brutally honest at times, and most of all wildly entertaining, it’s a new kind of portrait of New York at its postwar peak, by a historian who knows the game and the city in equal measure.” —Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
“Good thing I didn’t pursue a passing fancy to attempt this subject. Kevin Baker owns this story—the story of baseball’s childhood in New York when hopes and dreams and expectations were carried aloft on a.m. frequencies to stoops and corner candy stores and the cool underside of God knows how many pillows like my own. Incisive, evocative, and oh-so-smart about the intertwined fate of a golden city and its golden game, it allowed me to go home again.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
“The down-home game. The immigrant game. The dream game. Nothing shakes out the American soul quite like baseball. Kevin Baker doesn’t just tell a story of legends Mays, Mantle, and Robinson, but a social history that goes to the heart of the twentieth century. He illustrates the time when America on the field began to resemble America the nation. With humor, candor, and an unparalleled eye for detail, Baker has shown us once again that only truth is stranger than fiction, especially in New York City.” —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin
“An instant classic! Baker brings a generation of mythic names back to life on the streets, bars, and ball fields of the city that invented baseball as we know it. Epic and glorious, brutally honest at times, and most of all wildly entertaining, it’s a new kind of portrait of New York at its postwar peak, by a historian who knows the game and the city in equal measure.” —Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
“Good thing I didn’t pursue a passing fancy to attempt this subject. Kevin Baker owns this story—the story of baseball’s childhood in New York when hopes and dreams and expectations were carried aloft on a.m. frequencies to stoops and corner candy stores and the cool underside of God knows how many pillows like my own. Incisive, evocative, and oh-so-smart about the intertwined fate of a golden city and its golden game, it allowed me to go home again.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
“The down-home game. The immigrant game. The dream game. Nothing shakes out the American soul quite like baseball. Kevin Baker doesn’t just tell a story of legends Mays, Mantle, and Robinson, but a social history that goes to the heart of the twentieth century. He illustrates the time when America on the field began to resemble America the nation. With humor, candor, and an unparalleled eye for detail, Baker has shown us once again that only truth is stranger than fiction, especially in New York City.” —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin
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