TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nusbaum,Eric
TI  - Stealing home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between 
SN  - 9781541742215
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - Housing
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
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