Lot 203. 40+ Books on Brooklyn Dodgers History and Players – Campanella, Robinson, Etc. Hardbacks unless otherwise noted. Dodger histories dominate this collection. Many of them are autographed by the author: The Greatest Ballpark Ever, Bob McGee, 2005 first edition, nm-m book, ex-m dust jacket; The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn, 1972, vg-ex/vg; Brooklyn Dodgers and Their Rivals 1950-52, Mike Getz, 1999 stated first, ex/vg-ex. Through a Blue Lens, Dennis D’Agostino and Bonnie (Stein) Crosby, autographed by Crosby, 2007 apparent first, ex-m book and dj; Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, Doris Kearns Goodwin, 1997 first, ex-m+/nm; Dodger Classics, Bob (Robert L.) Tiemann, 1983 assumed first, vg-ex/vg-ex; A Fan’s Memoir, Bill Borst, 1982 first ed. paperback, nm, and Baseball’s Great Dynasties: The Dodgers, 1990 first, ex-m/ex-m, and The Brooklyn Dodgers, 1992, ex/ex, both signed by author Peter C. Bjarkman. The signatures are 9s and 10s, almost all personalized. Team and player history is captured in Andre Paul Mele’s A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader, 2005 McFarland hardback issued without a dust jacket, nm. Other histories are The Rhubarb Patch by Red Barber, 1954 paperback, first printing, g-vg; The Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Ed Fitzgerald, 1949 paperback, g-vg; The Brooklyn Dodgers by Donald Honig, Them Wonderful Bums 1901 to 1956 (paperback) by Tom Antonucci, The Artful Dodgers by Tom Meany (two editions, first edition from 1954 and 1966), The Giants & The Dodgers by Lee Allen, Bums by Peter Golenbock, Brooklyn’s Dodgers by Carl E. Prince and When Brooklyn Was the World 1920-1957 by Elliot Willensky. Also, books by Buzzie Bavasi, Fresco Thompson, Cliff Gewecke (day-by-day history, paperback), and Richard Goldstein. Among the more interesting autobiographies is Leo Durocher’s The Dodgers and Me, 1948 apparent first edition, vg book with title written on the front hardcover, dust jacket missing. Three books focus on Roy Campanella, including a first edition of It’s Good to Be Alive. Four are devoted to Jackie Robinson: Other (auto)biographies deal with Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, Babe Herman (softcover) and Clyde King (softcover). King’s book is signed “Burt” by his co-author, Burton Rocks; personalized 10. The books not otherwise graded average vg-ex in vg dust jackets. Three biographies with significant water damage to the books and dust jackets are reading copies only: 2 on Snider, 1 on Roseboro. There are five magazine-format copies of Who’s a Bum! The Brooklyn Dodgers road to the championship in 1955, 1996 from New York’s Daily News, nm. Also, Brooklyn’s Best I and II, 1988 and 1999 respectively, both vg-ex. And several surprise publications! Autographs authenticated by Kevin Keating. Proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Society for American Baseball Research, a non-profit membership organization open to all that fosters the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball.
Winning Bid $185.
Lot 207. 7 Yankees vs. Dodgers World Series Programs or Scorecards, 1949-56. Five Dodgers and three Yankees programs. The 1949 Dodgers program is poor, missing pages 23-28. The portion that is present, which includes photos and biographical sketches of Jackie Robinson and Joe DiMaggio, has an f-g appearance. The 48-page 1952 Dodgers program is vg with the owner’s 3” x 3 ½” label on an inside page. The Yankee version, neatly scored for Game 4, is poor (and we mean it) with water damage and pages sticking together. For 1953, a two-panel Dodgers scorecard is partially scored, and “Gilliam” is misspelled in the pre-printed lineup; g with a 1” tear. A 1953 Dodgers program scored for Game 4 has a p-f front cover with writing on it and vg-ex pages. The 1956 Dodgers program has a torn cover with writing on it and vg-ex pages with miscellaneous writing on eight of them. The Yankees’ version of the 1956 program is ex-m, neatly scored for Game 4. Two pages behind the scored pages do show some ink transfer. These programs are accompanied by four reprint World Series programs: 1916 Dodgers-Red Sox, 1920 Dodgers-Indians and 1947 and 1956, Dodgers-Yankees. The 1956 reprint shows scoring for Don Larsen’s perfect game. The reprints average ex-m. Proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit the Society for American Baseball Research, a non-profit membership organization open to all that fosters the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball.
Winning Bid $113.
