Stealing home : Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between / Eric Nusbaum.
"Dodger Stadium is an American icon. The oldest ballpark west of the Mississippi -- and the third oldest overall -- it is a shrine to baseball and an essential feature of the Los Angeles cityscape. Yet the story of how it was built has a dark side. To clear space for the stadium, the city tore down low-income, Hispanic-friendly housing, resulting in a dramatic confrontation between the County Sheriff and the one family-the Arechigas- who refused to yield their home.In Stealing Home, Eric Nusbaum -- a fluent Spanish-speaker, Dodgers fan, and lifelong Angeleno -- tells the stories of the people whose homes were destroyed, their conflict with the bureaucrats and money men of Los Angeles-notably Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, and a well-intentioned activist named Frank Wilkinson -- and shows how their lives were overrun by the wheel of history. Stealing Home is a vibrant work of baseball and urban history, a story about how our ideals can betray us, and the people who pay the price when they do"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781541742215
- ISBN: 1541742214
- Physical Description: xii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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Bethlehem Main Library | 796.357 (Text) | 33062009335549 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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