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Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture by David Krell (review)

Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture by David Krell (review) Book Reviews David Krell. Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 228 pp. Paper, $29.95. Rob Edelman One need not be a New Yorker of a certain age or a Brooklyn Dodgers afi- cionado to thoroughly enjoy Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture. However, given that author David Krell pays a respectful and at times adoring homage to the late, lamented Dodgers of the Borough of Churches, a love of Brooklyn and its MLB ball club certainly helps. As Krell observes: “The address 215 Montague Street was more important to Dodgers fans than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to Washington, D.C., politicos. It was, of course, the address for the headquarters of the Dodgers” (66). And he succinctly describes the unifying nature of the Dodgers within the confines of its home borough by observing: “Baseball provided a common language as the Dodgers united the borough from high society millionaires in Brooklyn Heights to working class families in Greenpoint, from beachgoers at Coney Island to Italian and Jewish immigrants settling in Bensonhurst. Brooklynites fused behind the Dodgers, building a collective identity through the emperors of Ebbets Field” (17). Still, anyone http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture University of Nebraska Press

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Book Reviews David Krell. Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 228 pp. Paper, $29.95. Rob Edelman One need not be a New Yorker of a certain age or a Brooklyn Dodgers afi- cionado to thoroughly enjoy Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture. However, given that author David Krell pays a respectful and at times adoring homage to the late, lamented Dodgers of the Borough of Churches, a love of Brooklyn and its MLB ball club certainly helps. As Krell observes: “The address 215 Montague Street was more important to Dodgers fans than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to Washington, D.C., politicos. It was, of course, the address for the headquarters of the Dodgers” (66). And he succinctly describes the unifying nature of the Dodgers within the confines of its home borough by observing: “Baseball provided a common language as the Dodgers united the borough from high society millionaires in Brooklyn Heights to working class families in Greenpoint, from beachgoers at Coney Island to Italian and Jewish immigrants settling in Bensonhurst. Brooklynites fused behind the Dodgers, building a collective identity through the emperors of Ebbets Field” (17). Still, anyone

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