It Happened in Brooklyn tells the story of mid-century Brooklyn where the authors were born and raised, home of the famed Brooklyn Dodgers, Nathan's franks, stoop-ball, stick-ball, and the best high schools in America.
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excerpt: "Why was I a Dodger fan? Naturally, all the good people were
Dodger fans. If a guy was a Yankee fan, you knew he was a nerd, out of
touch. He was probably anti-union, not for good causes, had a rich uncle
somewhere. If someone was a Giant fan, he was mixed up, like an anarchist,
a nihilist--he was doing it to spite his family, his friends. Dodger fans
were the salt of the earth, the common folk who believed in social
progress, the American way, the underdog." -- Joel Berger quoted in It
Happened in Brooklyn.
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