The Resource Stealing home : Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between, Eric Nusbaum
Stealing home : Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between, Eric Nusbaum
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 331 pages
- Isbn
- 9781541742215
- Label
- Stealing home : Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between
- Title
- Stealing home
- Title remainder
- Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between
- Statement of responsibility
- Eric Nusbaum
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nusbaum, Eric
- Dewey number
- 796.357/640979494
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GV875.L6
- LC item number
- N87 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team)
- Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles)
- Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Mexican-Americans
- Label
- Stealing home : Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between, Eric Nusbaum
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-318) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2019041742
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 331 pages
- Isbn
- 9781541742215
- Lccn
- 2019041742
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Label
- Stealing home : Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between, Eric Nusbaum
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-318) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2019041742
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 331 pages
- Isbn
- 9781541742215
- Lccn
- 2019041742
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
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