Dodgers vs. Yankees: The Long-Standing Rivalry Between Two of Baseball's Greatest Teams Hardcover – June 30, 2020

Personal reflection

Author Michael Schiavone has compiled a summary of the many World Series appearances the Yankees and Dodgers have taken part in over the past decades. A book of this sort, I suppose, must contain a lot of game by game summaries which I don't particularly like. Those I pretty much skipped over. A brief summary of each team's season is included prior to giving the summary of the World Series. The book did contain a number of anecdotes, some of which I'd never heard previously. I did get tired of the author's frequent references to the Dodgers as Dem Bums.I did find one error in the book. On page 32 the author refers to Jackie Robinson's manager at Montreal as Clay Hooper. The correct name is Clay Hopper. The book contains no photographs.

Good overnight baseball reading with a lot of history.

Australians should not write Baseball Books.The book, although very accurate in its history of the Dodger Yankee World Series, the author used "Dem Bums" too many times. Because writing about actual baseball games is pretty much play by play, the author used phrases like "plated" instead of simply saying "scored". I found his looking for other ways of saying the same thing very annoying. As a history it is very good. If you are looking for style, forget about it.

Such a heart twinging book. The happy yet sad nostalgia flows like a river. The Brooklyn Dodgers make you hopelessly pine for the past.

This book should be interesting to Dodger and Yankee fans who are interested in the clubs' history, or who remember much of the history. (I have been a Yankee fan since October 7, 1956, which, not coincidentally, was during a Dodgers-Yankees World Series.) It reviews the games of the Series these teams played in great detail, which provides perspective on how the rivalry developed.Unfortunately, the book is replete with poorly formed sentences. It's always clear what the author is trying to say, but if you are a bit of a grammarian, you will be annoyed by the poor choice of words, the misplaced modifiers, the incorrect verb tenses, and also the typographical errors (misspellings, repeated words, etc.).As an example (from p. 156): "Lighting (sic) rarely strikes twice, and the 1960 Dodgers came back to earth." (a typo and a misquoted aphorism in the same sentence)I observed one glaring error (on p. 159) regarding Don Drysdale's first major league start: "Drysdale pitched a complete game, giving up one run while striking out nine as the Dodgers beat the Phillies, 1-0." That obviously makes no sense, so I looked up the actual score of that game. It was 6-1.Somewhat laughable is a sentence near the end of the book (on p. 257): "I could wax lyrically about how both teams and their respective fans were riding on every pitch, the electricity so thick you could cut it with a knife, and so on." (It's fortunate that he did not try to "wax lyrically" more often throughout the book.)One final complaint (as a Yankee fan): The 1960 series (Pirates vs. Yankees) is mentioned, but the first 6 games were not mentioned except (indirectly) in a single sentence;;: "As was becoming the norm, a seventh game was needed." Describing only the seventh game totally fails to convey what a tragedy that Series was for the Yankees. No, it wasn't a Dodgers-Yankees Series, but if you mention it, you can't properly describe what happened by talking only about Game 7.The bottom line is that this book provides extensive (even minute) detail about the World Series games (and interleague games) these teams have played, but the poor writing and inadequate proofreading significantly mar the pleasure of reading their story.

Great book that tells the stories of the great Yankees / Dodgers rivalry throughout the years.