Summer of '49: The Yankees and the Red Sox in Postwar America (42 page)

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Dynasty.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1975.

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HEINZ, W. C.
American Mirror.
New York: Doubleday, 1982.

HOLTZMAN, JEROME.
No Cheering in the Press Box.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974.

HOUK, RALPH,
and
ROBERT CREAMER.
Season of Glory.
New York: Putnam, 1988.

KAHN, ROGER.
The Boys of Summer.
New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

———.
Joe and Marilyn.
New York: Morrow, 1986.

LEHMANN-HAUPT, CHRISTOPHER.
Me and DiMaggio.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

MEAD, WILLIAM.
Even the Browns.
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MEANY, TOM.
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New York: Dutton, 1960.

MOSEDALE, JOHN.
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New York: Dial Press, 1974.

RILEY, DAN,
ed.
The Red Sox Reader.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Ventura Arts, 1987.

RITTER, LAWRENCE.
The Glory of Their Times.
New York: Macmillan, 1966.

TULLIUS, JOHN.
I’d Rather Be a Yankee.
New York: Macmillan, 1986.

TYGIEL, JULES.
Baseball’s Great Experiment.
New York: Oxford, 1983.

WARFIELD, DON.
The Roaring Redhead.
South Bend, IN: Diamond Communications, 1987.

WILLIAMS, TED,
and
JOHN UNDERWOOD.
My Turn at Bat.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.

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Aaron, Hank,
54
,
285

advertising,
12
,
15-16

see also
commercials

agents,
226-227

Airline Club,
122-123

Allen, Fred.
223

Allen, Maury,
109-111

Allen. Mel,
15
,
54
,
61
,
69
,
109
,
117
,
124
,
126
,
157-163
,
222-223
,
225
,
253
,
266-267
,
275
,
280
,
306
,
312

All-Star Game,
106
,
149
,
206
,
254

All-Ugly team,
80-81

American
,
315

American League,
9
,
30
,
89
,
167
,
180
,
206
,
214
,
216
,
231
,
242
,
245
,
251
,
278
,
287
,
292-293
,
310

National League compared with,
106
,
149
,
285

American Legion,
113

Anderson, Sparky,
141

Associated Press.
292-293

Aunt Susie pitch,
265

Bainbridge, John,
129

Baker, Fred,
286-287

Ballantine Brewing Company,
163
,
223-224
,
313

Bankhead, Dan,
277

Banks, Ernie,
284-285

Barber. Red,
109
,
161
,
223
,
275
,
280
,
281

Barrow, Ed,
48-49
,
62-63
,
198

bars,
221
,
223

baseball:

as American culture,
10-14
,
115-116

blacks and,
14
,
187-188
,
197-201
,
275-285
,
288-289

and commercialism,
11-12
,
14-16

night,
183

post-World War II attendance of,
10-11
,
224

prejudice in,
187-188
,
197-201
,
275
,
276-278

and press,
101-109
,
115
,
116
,
157-163

sons of immigrants in,
12-14
,
45-46
,
65
,
81
,
115-116
,
198
,
207-208
,
248-249
,
257

see also
commercials; radio; television

Baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown, N.Y.),
93
,
114
,
187-188
,
305
,
310

bats,
181-183

Batts. Matt,
8
,
26
,
29
,
30
,
92-93
,
181
,
217-218
,
235-236
,
269
,
315

Bauer, Hank,
1
,
43
,
58
,
135
,
150
,
155
,
191-193
,
239
,
256
,
258
,
270
,
290
,
296
,
311

Bearden, Gene,
2
,
7
,
9
,
16

beer,
34
,
162-163
,
223-224
,
313

Bench, Johnny,
285

Benton, Al,
183

Berra, Paulina,
81
,
82
,
237-238

Berra, Pietro,
81
,
82

Berra. Yogi,
1
,
4
,
73
,
78-79
,
80-86
,
99
,
116
,
128
,
135-136
,
165-166
,
193
,
197
,
214
,
226-227
,
233
,
237-238
,
239
,
256
,
258
,
269
,
270
,
298
,
310-311

Berry, Charlie,
7
,
26
,
274

Berry, Connie,
146

Bickel, Fritz,
182

Bigler’s Sawmill team,
95

Birmingham Barons,
199

Birmingham Black Barons,
198
,
200
,
288-289

blacks,
14
,
187-188
,
197-201
,
275-285

Blondell. Joan,
51

bonus babies,
23-24
,
35
,
91
,
257
,
288

Boston, Mass.,
174
,
175-178
,
198

Boston Evening American
,
9

Boston Globe.
9,
58
,
88
,
144
,
147
,
177
,
239

Boston Herald
,
25

Boston Record
,
174
,
176
,
177
,
179
,
254
,
315

Boston Record American
,
177
,
315

Boston Red Sox,
80
,
123

annual profit of,
144

blacks in,
197-201

building up team of,
17-30

exhaustion of,
241

fans of,
1-2
,
7
,
100
,
115-116
,
217-218
,
308

fielding of,
138
,
144

heat and,
205
,
212-14

hitting of,
18
,
20-21
,
22
,
27-28
,
30
,
112-116
,
121
,
205
,
206-207
,
212-213

injuries of,
89-90
,
241-243

lack of leadership of,
136-138
,
139-140
,
167-168

McCarthy as manager of,
6
,
8
,
9
,
23-28
,
58
,
87-88
,
89
,
90-92
,
98
,
101-103
,
106
,
138
,
144
,
145-146
,
150
,
202
,
203
,
237
,
241
,
242
,
258
,
268
,
269
,
270
,
272
,
274
,
315

in 1946 World Series,
106

1948 pennant race of,
1-9
,
44
,
144
,
175
,
251
,
273
,
274

in 1948 World Series,
15

1949 August games of,
212-214
,
216
,
217
,
228-229

1949 early three-game series of,
88-89
,
91
,
98

1949 July games of,
164-167
,
202
,
204-205

1949 June games of,
144-147
,
149-152
,
156-157

1949 pennant race of,
87
,
124-125
,
133
,
205
,
212
,
216
,
217
,
220
,
229
,
236-244
,
249-274
,
315

1949 season aftermath of,
286-292

in 1967 World Series,
288

at old-timers’ game,
303-305
,
314-315

pitching of,
18-21
,
26
,
27
,
89-98
,
145-147
,
152-153
,
154-156
,
167
,
202
,
212
,
213
,
229
,
240-241
,
242-243
,
255

players of,
17-30
,
87-98
,
112-116
,
167-190
,
202-212
,
228-230
,
251-252
,
306-310

postbaseball careers of,
286-291
,
313-315

press and,
104
,
167
,
202
,
203
,
204
,
205
,
254
,
312
,
313

wives of,
254

Yankee rivalry with,
16-17

Yawkey and,
17
,
20
,
91
,
136
,
139-144
,
187
,
204
,
254
,
289
,
305
,
313-314

Boudreau, Lou,
3
,
7
,
8
,
70
,
93
,
149
,
274
,
313

Bowery Savings Bank,
300

box scores,
108
,
109

Bradley, Bill,
66

Brissie, Lou,
87

Britt, Jim,
115
,
176
,
269-270

Brooklyn Dodgers,
1
,
19
,
44
,
58
,
105
,
109
,
124
,
138-139
,
161
,
198
,
226
,
245
,
246
,
263
,
275-285

Brown, Bobby,
23-24
,
35
,
57
,
61
,
76
,
100-101
,
118
,
119-120
,
193
,
247
,
249
,
259
,
268
,
310

Burns, Jack,
289

Byrne, Tommy,
2
,
4
,
89
,
118
,
125
,
151
,
162
,
232-236
,
250
,
283
,
311

Calvert, Paul,
71

Camilli, Dolf,
116

Campanella, Roy.
276
,
277

Campbell, Joseph,
xi

Cannon, Jimmy,
44
,
50-52
,
124
,
129
,
130
,
132
,
194

Cardinal Chain Gang,
154

card playing,
23
,
25

Carmody, Tom,
262