City of Dreams : Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles /

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On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city. "When Walter O'Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark next to...

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Autor principal: Podair, Jerald E., 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team)
Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team) > History.
Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; PREFACE: OPENING DAY IN LOS ANGELES; 1 Roads West; 2 Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles; 3 Fighting the Dodger Deal; 4 The Referendum; 5 In the Courts; 6 Whose Land?; 7 The Arechiga Dispossessions; 8 Private Gain, Public Good? The Business of Baseball in Los Angeles; 9 Building the Dodger Stadium Experience; 10 The Rise of Sam Yorty; 11 The Modern Stadium; EPILOGUE: DODGER STADIUM AND MODERN LOS ANGELES; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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