Mistake In The New Book By Bill Madden

There is a factual mistake in Bill Madden’s new book “1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever.”

Look no further than the first paragraph of this excerpt from chapter nine.

“New York in the 1950s was the capital of the baseball universe, a time and place in which every year, from 1947 until 1957 (when the Giants and Dodgers left town for the West Coast), at least one and often two of the city’s three teams played host for the World Series.”

Madden wrote that every World Series from (1947-1957) included at least one New York baseball team. That is not true.

In 1948 the World Series matched the Cleveland Indians against the Boston Braves. The Indians won in six games and it is their last World Series win to date. That makes Madden’s factual mistake a bit more severe.

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