The Giants and the Dodgers: Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry
- ISBN-10
- 0786416408
- ISBN-13
- 9780786416400
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-06-03
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Author
- Andrew Goldblatt
Description
The Giant-Dodger rivalry - the best in baseball by 1890 - remains the game's oldest and most storied. It's remarkable how often both teams have been good, how rarely both have been bad, and how tenaciously the underdog has battled in between. Through 12 decades (and in two sets of cities 3,000 miles apart) Giants and Dogers partisans have rooted passionately.
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