Michael D'Antonio's Books
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A Ball, a Dog, and a MonkeyA Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey tells the remarkable story of America's first efforts to succeed in space, a time of exploding rockets, national space...Read More -
The State Boys RebellionA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the amazing story of how a group of imprisoned boys won their freedom, found justice, and survived one of the...Read More
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Blogcritics.org, May 25, 2009
...and covered many different aspects of the game. In Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Michael D'Antonio gets to the bottom of this familiar myth and tries to reveal the truthbehind it. Yes, O'Malley did, as owner of the Dodgers, make the...
Los Angeles Dodgers, May 10, 2009
...stride and proceeded to create one of the most respected and profitable franchises in all of sports. Author Michael D'Antonio chronicles O'Malley's life and career in his book, 'Forever Blue.' 'I was very aware that Walter O'Malley was a key figure in...
Columbus Dispatch, April 14, 2009
...the baseball story into the larger tapestry of racial unrest that afflicted Boston three decades ago. ⢠Author: Michael D'Antonio (Riverhead, 355 pages, $25.95) ⢠Summary: Fifty years have passed since O'Malley uprooted his Dodgers from...
Daily Gleaner, March 21, 2009
...of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles,' by Michael D'Antonio Michael D'Antonio (Riverhead Books) Crowds cheered along the streets of Brooklyn on Oct. 4, 1955. Children leaned out windows to...
Atlantic Yards Report, September 26, 2009
...would "repudiate a 50-year cycle of declne") believe the cliche about the loss of the Dodgers? As authors Michael D'Antonio and Pete Hamill have pointed out , nostalgia for the Dodgers began to dissipate in the early 1960s. The Russians are coming? Levy...
Bob Edwards Show, April 12, 2009
...his native New York, loved in Los Angeles and became the most notorious baseball owner in sports history. Michael D'Antonio's new biography is called Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of...
Atlantic Yards Report, March 23, 2009
...out that Brooklyn had rebounded by the 1960s For Atlantic Yards watchers, probably the most significant thing about Michael D’Antonio's revisionist biography of Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley, Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley,...
