EPILOGUE
358 “We truly felt”—Yogi Berra,
What Time Is It?
, p. 159.
358 “Most of all”—Duke Snider,
The Duke of Flatbush
, p. 20.
359 “Just look”—Morris Engelberg and Marv Schneider,
DiMaggio
, p. 92.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
There are a multitude of books about the New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the players profiled in this book. These are the ones I found most useful, but the list does not in any way purport to be an exhaustive compilation of interesting and informative works on those subjects. I have not included the articles and other sources I used because of the sheer volume, but the endnotes provide some indication of the breadth of the other sources that were reviewed.
Allen, Maury.
Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers.
Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 2005.
Appel, Marty.
Now Pitching for the Yankees: Spinning the News for Mickey, Billy and George.
Kingston, NY: Total Sports Publishing, 2001.
Appel, Marty.
Yesterday’s Heroes: Revisiting the Old-Time Baseball Stars.
New York: HarperCollins, 1988.
Barber, Red.
1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball.
New York: DaCapo Press, 1982.
Barra, Allen.
Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
, New York: Norton, 2009.
Bavasi, Buzzie.
Off the Record.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987.
Berra, Yogi, with Dave Kaplan.
Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons.
New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Berra, Yogi, with Dave Kaplan.
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Berra, Yogi, with Dave Kaplan.
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball’s Greatest Heroes.
New York: Hyperion, 2001.
Berra, Yogi, with Tom Horton.
Yogi: It Ain’t Over.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Bouton, Jim.
Ball Four.
New York: Dell Publishing, 1970.
Campanella, Roy.
It’s Good to Be Alive.
New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1959.
Castro, Tony.
Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son.
Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books, 2002.
Cataneo, David.
Casey Stengel: Baseball’s “Old Professor.”
Nashville, Tennessee: Turner Publishing, 2003.
Creamer, Robert W.
Stengel: His Life and Times.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
Demarco, Michael.
Dugout Days: Untold Tales & Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Career of Billy Martin.
New York: AMACOM, 2001.
Durocher, Leo, with Ed Linn.
Nice Guys Finish Last.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Eig, Jonathan.
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Einstein, Charles (ed.).
The Fireside Book of Baseball.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956.
Einstein, Charles (ed.).
The Second Fireside Book of Baseball.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958.
Engelberg, Morris, and Marv Schneider.
DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight.
St. Paul, Minnesota: MBI, 2003.
Erskine, Carl.
Tales from the Dodger Dugout.
Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 2004.
Erskine, Carl.
What I Learned from Jackie Robinson: A Teammate’s Reflections On and Off the Field.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Eskenazi, Gerald.
The Lip: A Biography of Leo Durocher.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Falkner, David.
The Last Yankee: The Turbulent Life of Billy Martin.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Frommer, Harvey.
Rickey and Robinson.
New York: Macmillan, 1982.
Ford, Whitey, with Phil Pepe.
Slick: My Life In and Around Baseball.
New York: HarperCollins, 1987.
Ford, Whitey, Mickey Mantle, and Joseph Durso.
Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years.
New York: Viking, 1977.
Frick, Ford C.
Games, Asterisks, and People: Memoirs of a Lucky Fan.
New York: Crown, 1973.
Gallen, David (ed.).
The Baseball Chronicles.
New York: Avalon Publishing Group, 1991.
Garagiola, Joe.
Baseball Is a Funny Game.
New York: Lippincott, 1960.
Golenbock, Peter.
Amazin’: The Miraculous History of New York’s Most Beloved Baseball Team.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
Golenbock, Peter.
Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
New York: Putnam, 1984.
Golenbock, Peter.
Dynasty: The New York Yankees 1949-64.
New York: Prentice Hall, 1975.
Golenbock, Peter.
George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire.
New York: Wiley, 2009.
Golenbock, Peter.
Wild, High and Tight: The Life and Death of Billy Martin.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
Wait Till Next Year: Summer Afternoons with My Father and Baseball.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Henrich, Tommy, with Bill Gilbert.
Five O’Clock Lightning: Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and the Glory Days of the New York Yankees.
New York: Carol Publishing, 1992.
Hodges, Gil, with Frank Slocum.
The Game of Baseball.
New York: Crown, 1969.
Hodges, Russ, and Al Hirshberg.
My Giants.
New York: Doubleday, 1963.
Howard, Arlene.
Elston and Me: The Story of the First Black Yankee.
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2001.
Jacobs, Bruce.
Baseball Stars of 1950.
New York: Lion Press, 1950.
Jacobson, Sidney.
Pete Reiser: The Rough-and-Tumble Career of the Perfect Ballplayer.
Charlotte, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2004.
Kahn, Roger.
The Boys of Summer.
New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
Kahn, Roger.
The Era 1947-1957: When the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers Ruled the World.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Kahn, Roger.
October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin and the Yankees’ Miraculous Finish in 1978.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Kubek, Tony, and Terry Pluto.
Sixty-One: The Team, the Record, the Men.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Lally, Richard.
Bombers: An Oral History of the New York Yankees.
New York: Crown, 2002.
Larsen, Don, with Mark Shaw.
The Perfect Yankee: The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History.
Champaign, Illinois: Saga-more Publishing, 1996.
Liederman, Bill, and Maury Allen.
Our Mickey: Cherished Memories of an American Icon.
Chicago, Illinois: Triumph Books, 2004.
Mann, Arthur.
The Jackie Robinson Story.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950.
Mantle, Merlyn, Mickey E. Mantle, David Mantle, and Dan Mantle, with Mickey Hershowitz.
A Hero All His Life.
New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
Mantle, Mickey.
The Quality of Courage.
New York: Doubleday, 1964.
Mantle, Mickey, with Herb Gluck.
The Mick.
New York: Doubleday, 1985.
Mantle, Mickey, with Mickey Hershowitz.
All My Octobers: My Memories of Twelve World Series When the Yankees Ruled Baseball.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Mantle, Mickey, and Phil Pepe.
My Favorite Summer 1956.
New York: Doubleday, 1991.
Martin, Billy, and Peter Golenbock.
Number 1.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1980.
Moffi, Larry, and Jonathan Kronstadt.
Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers 1947-1959.
Charlotte, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1994.
The New York Daily News.
Yogi Berra: An American Original.
Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 1998.
Ninfo, Bill.
Carl Furillo: The Forgotten Dodger.
Authorhouse, 2002.
Oakley, Ronald J.
Baseball’s Last Golden Age, 1946-1960.
Charlotte, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1994.
Oliphant, Thomas.
Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Peary, Danny (ed.).
Cult Baseball Players: The Greats, the Flakes, the Weird and the Wonderful.
New York: Fireside, 1990.
Prager, Joshua.
The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World.
New York: Pan theon, 2006.
Prince, Carl E.
Brooklyn’s Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Rampersad, Arnold.
Jackie Robinson: A Biography.
New York: Knopf, 1997.
Rizzuto, Phil, and Tom Horton.
The October Twelve: Five Years of Yankee Glory, 1949-1953.
New York: Forge, 1994.
Robinson, Jackie.
I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography.
New York: Putnam, 1972.
Robinson, Rachel.
Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait.
New York: Abrams, 1996.
Robinson, Sharon.
Stealing Home: An Intimate Family Portrait by the Daughter of Jackie Robinson.
New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
Salant, Nathan.
Superstars, Stars, and Just Plain Heroes.
New York: Stein and Day, 1982.
Shapiro, Michael.
The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together.
New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Silverman, Jeff (ed.).
The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told.
Old Say-brook, Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2001.
Slaughter, Enos, with Kevin Reid.
Country Hardball: The Autobiography of Enos “Country” Slaughter.
Greensboro, North Carolina: Tudor Publishers, 1991.
Snider, Duke, with Bill Gilbert.
The Duke of Flatbush.
New York: Kensing ton, 1988.
Staten, Vince.
Ol’ Diz: A Biography of Dizzy Dean.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Szalontai, James D.
Close Shave: The Life and Times of Baseball’s Sal Maglie.
Charlotte, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2002.
Testa, Judith.
Sal Maglie: Baseball’s Demon Barber.
DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Thorn, John, Peter Palmer, Michael Gershman, and David Pietrusza.
Total Baseball
(Sixth Edition). New York: Total Sports, 1999.
Tygiel, Jules.
Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
INDEX
Aaron, Hank
Abrams, Cal
Adams, Red
Ainsmith, Eddie
Alexander, Hugh
Allen, Mel
Alston, Walter
Amoros and
bats Campanella eighth in 1955,
bats Furillo eighth in 1954,
in conference with Maglie in sixth inning of perfect game
Gilliam and
Mitchell and
pinch hits Mitchell for Maglie in perfect game
Robinson and
on Snider
Amoros, Eloise
Amoros, Migdalia
Amoros, Sandy
in 1956 regular season
Alston and
batting accomplishments in 1954 season
celebrated catch in World Series of 1955,
childhood of
death of
deteriorating health in later years
in the field during perfect game
first at bat in perfect game
language barrier and
Migdalia (wife) and
as minor leaguer
personality of
post-1956 career of
power of
second at bat in perfect game
speculation about Dodger’s holding back of
speed of
third at bat in perfect game
Ashburn, Richie
Averill, Earl
Baker, Del
Ball Four
(Bouton)
Barber, Red
Barnett, Barney
Barney, Rex
Baseball Digest
Bauer, Bea
Bauer, Charlene Friede
Bauer, Hank
batting accomplishments of
Berra and
brought up to Yankees in 1948,
cancer of
Carey and
as catcher in one game for Yankees
catch in World Series of 1951,
Charlene (wife) and
childhood of
commitment to teammates of
death of
fantasy baseball camps and
in the field during perfect game
fighting spirit of
first at bat in perfect game
fourth at bat in perfect game
hustle of
on Larsen’s selection to start perfect game
as leadoff batter
malaria and
as manager
Mantle and
in the marines
as minor leaguer
negotiates with Weiss
nerves in top of the ninth inning of perfect game
personality of
physical appearance of
post-1956 career of
second at bat in perfect game
on Slaughter
Stengel’s platoon system and
strength of
third at bat in perfect game
29th birthday celebration for Martin at Copacabana incident
voice of
World Series checks and
Bauer, Hank, Jr.
Bauer, Herman
Bauer, Joe
Bauer, John
Bauer, Mary
Bavasi, Buzzie
Campanella and
Furillo and