A Novel
Losing the Dodgers
One Boy’s Story
By John Theodore
A crisp autumn evening, 1957. Young Frank Mitchell turns on the television in the living room of his Brooklyn home. An older man in a suit is talking in a serious voice: “…the Brooklyn Baseball Club…steps completed to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.” The Dodgers moving to Los Angeles? That’s not possible; they can’t take our ball club away from us.
Can they?
A coming-of-age story, readers live Frank's anger, his frustrations, when his innocent world is shattered by a powerful three-card Monte...orchestrated by the Dodgers' owner, New York politics, and a city three thousand miles away. Mitchell, a young baseball romantic, believes a ball club belongs to its fans...but discovers that "nothing good lasts forever."
Readers are taken back to a different day, to live as Frank Mitchell; when tiny Ebbets Field is the epicenter of the National League, and the Dodgers are Baseball Royalty; when the Dodgers are the first to visualize the changing American profile; when Jackie Robinson wins six pennants in 10 years; when Campy, Robinson, Duke, and Pee Wee are all that matters.
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Author contact:
John Theodore
John_theodore02@yahoo.com
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