Jerald Podair is professor of history and the Robert S. French Professor of American Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He is the author of The Strike That Changed New York and Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer.
Jerald Podair sets the record straight. . . . With exhaustive documentation he takes us through every step of the Dodgers' move west. --Marshall Goldberg, Weekly Standard [Podair] is a sure-footed guide. --John Buntin, Wall Street Journal [An] excellent new book. --Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek An exhaustive, thoroughly researched and fair-minded account. --Henry D. Fetter, History News Network Careful research and straightforward prose make this an excellent introduction. --Publishers Weekly Finalist for the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, Pen American Center Winner of the 2018 Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal, Society for American Baseball Research