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The Giants and the Dodgers: Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry.(Book Review)

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Andrew Goldblatt. The Giants and the Dodgers: Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2003. 296 pp. Paper, $29.95.

Andrew Goldblatt, the author of this finely focused book, is an administrative specialist in the Office of Risk Management at the University of California-Berkeley. That is a Clark Kent-like identity if ever you've read one, for Goldblatt was born in New York and moved to California, just like the two teams about which he has written, and he has, as he confesses in his acknowledgments, "the requisite baseball and literary backgrounds." The result is a very good piece of baseball history, a nice effort of which both author and …

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