Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
11/07/2007
The Brooklyn Dodgers, from Jackie Robinson's breaking baseball's color barrier to their move to Los Angeles, a dozen years later. The Dodgers epitomize the diverse working-class, in contrast with the white uptown Yankees, and come oh-so-close to winning the World Series before it finally happens in 1955. By then, Ebbets Field is crumbling, ticket sales are off, fans have moved to the suburbs, and Robert Moses is blocking Walter O'Malley's plan to build a stadium at the terminus of the Long Island Railroad. When Los Angeles makes O'Malley an offer he can't refuse, an era comes to an end: in 1958 the Dodgers and cross-town-rival Giants go West, leaving the ghosts of Flatbush.
Movie Information
Jackie Robinson
as Self
Liev Schreiber
as Self (Narrator)
Duke Snider
as Self
Buzzie Bavasii
as Self
Ralph Branca
as
Peter O'Malley
as
Rachel Robinson
as
Gil Hodges
as
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