The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey
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The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey

New York City Baseball's Golden Age amid Integration

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey

New York City Baseball's Golden Age amid Integration

About this book

A new perspective on postwar New York City baseball, including the city's Negro League teams

In the golden age of baseball, three Major League Baseball teams in New York City vied for supremacy on the diamond, with the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees each winning at least one World Series. Too often overlooked, the Negro Leagues had five teams in the city fighting for primacy in the sport: the Brooklyn Royal Giants, the New York Lincoln Giants, the New York Black Yankees, the New York Cubans, and, albeit very briefly, the Brooklyn Eagles.

In The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey: New York City Baseball's Golden Age amid Integration, Robert Cottrell highlights a unique period in history when New York City baseball was at its height of dominance, spanning over a decade in postwar America. Cottrell includes detailed coverage of the three years in succession when the Giants, Dodgers, and Yankees won the World Series in the 1950s, featuring star players Willie Mays, Duke Snider, and Mickey Mantle. He also examines the major Black teams of the era, melding the story of New York City baseball with that of the Negro Leagues, Jackie Robinson and the Great Experiment, and the remarkable Black athletes who braved racism and threats to integrate the game.

New York City baseball flourished in the postwar years, but its era of dominance wound to a close amid struggles to transform playing fields and America itself. The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey is a fascinating perspective on the city's teams, players, and integration of the sport.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9798881854454
Edition
1
Subtopic
Sociology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: Nine of Major League Baseball’s Original Ten Cities and the Negro Leagues
  10. Chapter 2: Baseball in America’s Greatest City
  11. Chapter 3: The Veterans Return
  12. Chapter 4: Postwar Baseball as the Negro Leagues Wither
  13. Chapter 5: A New Yankee Dynasty amid the Boys of Summer and Leo’s Giants
  14. Chapter 6: New York Baseball Ascends in 1951
  15. Chapter 7: The Yankees and Dodgers on Top as Mantle Returns and Mays Enters the Military
  16. Chapter 8: Franchise Shift and Wait ’Til Next Year Season, Yet Again
  17. Chapter 9: Return of the Say Hey Kid
  18. Chapter 10: The Year the Yankees Lose the Pennant, Willie Mays Targets Ruth’s Record, the Catch, and Durocher’s Team Wins!
  19. Chapter 11: The Duke of Flatbush
  20. Chapter 12: No More Wait ’Til Next Year for Duke Snider and the Brooklyn Dodgers
  21. Chapter 13: The Commerce Comet
  22. Chapter 14: Stengel’s Yankees Rebound as Mickey Mantle Wins the Triple Crown
  23. Chapter 15: A Baseball Era Nears an End
  24. Chapter 16: The New York City Dynasty Winds to a Close
  25. Chapter 17: Legacies
  26. Notes
  27. Selected Bibliography
  28. Index
  29. About the Author

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