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Chargement... Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Betweenpar Eric Nusbaum
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) lschiff | Sep 24, 2023 |  I thought that Eric Nusbaum's _Stealing Home_ told the story of one of those crony deals. In 1959 Los Angeles grabbed neighborhoods by eminent domain, supposedly to build a housing project, and then sold it to Walter O'Malley so he could move the Brooklyn Dodgers to LA. The people who thought they'd get new homes had been lied to. _Stealing Home_ supposedly tells that story. It starts well, focusing on the razing of Abrana Aréchiga's home. But then the book rambles interminably. It covers Mexican migrants from previous generations, the Mexican War, Santa Anna's role in the invention of baseball cards, Abner Doubleday's lack of any role in the invention of baseball, and more. After a few dozen pages of this, I started skimming, hoping to get to the story of Chavez Ravine and Dodger Stadium. Shortly after page 100, I gave up. A book needs to earn the time I spend reading it, and this one had run out of credit. There are some good books about governmental grabs of people's homes for the benefit of politicians' pals. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them. (  ) GaryMcGath | Jul 22, 2020 |
...as beloved as baseball was on the west coast (before the Dodgers and New York Giants kicked off western expansion in the late ’50s, the Pacific Coast League compared favorably with the Majors in terms of popularity and business), there is no getting around the fact that the construction of Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine was an enterprise built on class distinction. Thousands of lower-income Hispanics were displaced from their homes in order to placate middle- and upper-class white fans. Nusbaum --- a veteran sports journalist --- takes a deep dive into that story from the point of view of one family, as well as a few other figures lost to history, save for the excellent research he has done here.... Frankly, there are other books that do a more effective job of reporting how the move from Brooklyn to L.A. all fell into place. STEALING HOME is more about the people, those “Lives Caught in Between,” than the process. “Stealing Home” is a scrupulously detailed account, written in novelistic, economical prose and featuring people like Wilkinson and O’Malley but focusing on those “lives caught in between.” Mostly it’s about the Aréchiga family, who became symbols of “the Battle of Chavez Ravine” when photos of them being forced out, some literally kicking and screaming, were widely circulated. They sat across the street and watched in horror as the city bulldozed their hand-built family home of nearly 40 years. A well-known tale of racial injustice given a fresh look by sportswriter Nusbaum. The construction of Dodger Stadium is an epic well known in the history of Southern California. The author digs deep to find stories from the canyon where the stadium was built, a place made by Mexican and Mexican American families who were covenanted out of other neighborhoods in Los Angeles.... With the passage of time, the communities of Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop faded from memory. “Baseball may have mystical powers, but it cannot erase the past,” writes the author near the end. “It cannot redeem us.” That’s just right, and Nusbaum does good work by reminding readers of what was lost in the name of municipal bragging rights. Provocative, essential reading for students of California history. Prix et récompensesListes notables
"Dodger Stadium is an American icon. The oldest ballpark west of the Mississippi -- and the third oldest overall -- it is a shrine to baseball and an essential feature of the Los Angeles cityscape. Yet the story of how it was built has a dark side. To clear space for the stadium, the city tore down low-income, Hispanic-friendly housing, resulting in a dramatic confrontation between the County Sheriff and the one family-the Arechigas- who refused to yield their home.In Stealing Home, Eric Nusbaum -- a fluent Spanish-speaker, Dodgers fan, and lifelong Angeleno -- tells the stories of the people whose homes were destroyed, their conflict with the bureaucrats and money men of Los Angeles-notably Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, and a well-intentioned activist named Frank Wilkinson -- and shows how their lives were overrun by the wheel of history. Stealing Home is a vibrant work of baseball and urban history, a story about how our ideals can betray us, and the people who pay the price when they do"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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