Valentina Capraro Capraro itibaren Claxby St. Andrew, Lincolnshire, İngiltere itibaren Claxby St. Andrew, Lincolnshire, İngiltere

The departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers at the end of the 1957 season has become one of the most infamous moments in baseball history, largely overshadowing the near-simultaneous departure of the New York Giants for San Francisco. Murphy looks back at both situations, looking to break past the myths that have accumulated over the last half-century. (In other words, Walter O'Malley isn't evil incarnate, and neither is Robert Moses. Then again, neither of them come out of this smelling much like a rose, either.) It's an entertaining, straightforward history--Murphy lays on the "ah, the 1950s were a different era" a little thick sometimes, but for the most part he's an engaging narrator with a balanced perspective on what was once (and for men of Murphy's generation, probably still is) a bitterly controversial period in New York City's history.

The first book in this series had so much promise. I was so sure that this book would be better since that's usually the pattern. I was mistaken. By the time I got to the end of this book I felt I had read 3 or 4 different stories. There was so much lacking in character development that I was left with only vague mental wisps of what the characters looked like. There was little consistency in them to get any concrete feel on who they really were. The only saving grace to this series is that it's an original story line with great potential. I just wanted to tell the author to slow down and let us get into the story before you change it up. I can think of several different parts that needed so much more detail and explanation. The "Breath-Giver" for instance was a major entity that needs further elaboration. Then there are the characters thrown in half-hazard to do nothing more than to move the story along. I do hope that the next book is leaps and bounds better than this one.