* Announcement: Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive, 1957
30 04 2008
Oh “great”; here we go again.
Although the author doesn’t employ “greatest” or “best” in his title, The Last Great Pennant Race does have connotations that there haven’t been any since.
I’m guessing thousands, if not millions, of fans would beg to differ.
The subtitle to my book, “Brooklyn Dodgers: The Last Great Pennant Drive, 1957,” refers to the mid-season pennant drive that the Dodgers began just after the All-Star game during their last year in Brooklyn. This pennant drive was featured in the “Baseball X-Ray” section of the July 29, 1957 edition of “Sports Illustrated.” See pages 66-67 of my book for a quotation from this article and the accompanying photographs of Duke Snider and Gil Hodges.