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40+ Books on Brooklyn Dodgers History and Players – Campanella, Robinson, Etc.
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.
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