Re: [bomp] what's the basic thing behind Helyar's claim?

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

 --- ItsBoss9@aol.com escribis: 
> 
> but the 
> best--and a scathing indictment against the Dodgers
> "brain"trust-- is to be 
> found in the superb The Lords Of The Realm by John
> Helyar, a detailed look 
> at ownership, racism, liars, and fuckwads who can't
> count to twenty without 
> being naked--the owners in other words.
> 
> NOW, I've heard of those other two books, but not
> seen this one.  Yes, it was 
> Branch Rickey who broke the color barrier w/ Jackie
> Robinson, but... were the 
> Dodgers NOT the most integrated team of the '50s....

That would've been the Indians, in the American
League......
coincidentally, the late 40s and early 50s were
probably the 
greatest era in the history of Cleveland baseball. 

BTW, are you aware of a '49 childrens' movie called
"The Kid 
>From Cleveland" starring a young Russ Tamblyn (IIRC),
which
features the Indians team of that era. I've read about
it but
never seen it. 

> and... the best National 
> Leauge team of that decade?  (Kudos, though, to the
> '57 and '58 Braves)...

The Giants weren't doing too badly in the 50s
either......
> 


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