John Theodore
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John Theodore

Biographies & Memoirs
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LOSING THE DODGERS: One Boy's Story (A Novel) 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 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. 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." ALSO: BASEBALL'S NATURAL: The Story of Eddie Waitkus. Sensitive post-war story of a lost hero whose life was forever changed one June night at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel. Booklist's Top Twelve Sports Non-Fiction Titles, 2003. EVIL SUMMER: Babe Leopold, Dickie Loeb and the Kidnap-Murder of Bobby Franks. An eerie view into the minds of two of Chicago's most infamous criminals. Illinois State Historical Society Award, 2008. BASEBALL...and OTHER ROMANTIC LIFE LESSONS. A blend of fantasy and fact in a reflective and historical collection of essays and short stories. (eBook) SHAPING the STORY: An Urban Novel. One City, One Year. This historical novel, set in 1958 Chicago, revolves around Sam Garfield, a Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist who is forced to take a critical look at himself and his relationships with his mentally ill twin brother, the woman he loves, and the people he writes about. (eBook)
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