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Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
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(Buch) |
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i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig |
Veröffentlichung: |
März 2021
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Genre: |
Ratgeber |
ISBN: |
9781541742222 |
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9781541742222 |
Verlag: |
Publicaffairs |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 138 mm / B 208 mm / D 30 mm |
Gewicht: |
298 gr |
Seiten: |
352 |
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Inhalt: |
"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 Arâechigas--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"-- |
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