This book, originally published in 1976, tells the story of baseball in New York City, as witnessed by three generations of an American family, from the game's beginnings before the Civil War until the Dodgers and Giants went to California in 1958. 

"There is perhaps no existing team history more rich in play-by-play detail or more evocative in its nostalgic portrait of events surrounding baseball's three most popular teams."—The Minneapolis Review of Baseball