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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.

The beloved "Boys of Summer" are back in this landmark film -- Robinson, Reese, Campanella, Hodges and Snider. Live the history of the legendary "Bums" from Brooklyn from their beginnings in the 1880s through to the sad day they left Brooklyn forever in 1957.

Using archival footage and interviews with legendary Major League Baseball players, this nostalgic program pays tribute to Brooklyn's "Boys of Summer," a team with an uncanny knack for letting the pennant slip right through their fingers. Featured personalities include Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Don Newcomb, Johnny Podres, Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson, who famously broke the color barrier in professional

In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball facing unabashed racism from the public, the press and other players.

Charles Durning appears as the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel in this one-man show presented before a live studio audience.

Documentary about the final performance of the "Brooklyn Baseball Cantata" led by Cantor Suzanne Bernstein in a small local reform synagogue.

A film adaptation of The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn, this documentary, hosted by comedian Sid Caesar, a Brooklyn boy and lifelong Brooklyn Dodgers fan, dates from 1983. While it discusses the exploits of the team in their grandest era, THE BOYS OF SUMMER focuses more importantly on the team members' lives since the end of The Era.

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.