Stealing Home

Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between

De: Eric Nusbaum

Narrado por: David Owen Nelson

The "scrupulously detailed" (Los Angeles Times) story of how the fight to build Dodgers Stadium, and transform Los Angeles into a big league city, came at the cost of everyday Angelenos
Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy.
Instead of getting their homes back, the remaining residents saw the city sell their land to Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now LA would be getting a different sort of utopian fantasy -- a glittering, ultra-modern stadium.
But before Dodger Stadium could be built, the city would have to face down the neighborhood's families -- including one, the Aréchigas, who refused to yield their home. The ensuing confrontation captivated the nation - and the divisive outcome still echoes through Los Angeles today.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A well-known tale of racial injustice given a fresh look...Provocative, essential reading."
—Kirkus

"Eric Nusbaum takes several overlooked threads of history and weaves them into a vivid tapestry of twentieth-century America that is at once sprawling and intimate, raw and poignant. Stealing Home is a relevant and important book--and a fantastic read."—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Figures

"Stealing Home has a driving plot, a humane heart, and a proud conscience. Read it and enjoy the story, or read it and get mad, or read it and change your mind. Most importantly, read it."—Chuck D, founding member of Public Enemy

"In my family, the Dodgers caused pain and disillusionment when they left Brooklyn. But what happened in Los Angeles is a second drama with its own measure of financial manipulation, political intrigue, and working-class heartache. Stealing Home takes on a whole new meaning in Eric Nusbaum's marvelous book."—David Maraniss, New York Times-bestselling author of When Pride Still Mattered and Clemente

"As a sports book, Stealing Home is astonishingly good-but it's more than just a sports book. The human experience it depicts resonates far beyond Los Angeles. The writing is lean, hard, and urgent. You'll read it quickly and think about it for a long time."—Brian Phillips, New York Times-bestselling author of Impossible Owls

"A story perfectly told, riveting, moving, and deeply human."—Will Leitch, author of Are We Winning? and God Save the Fan

"A detailed, compelling history that goes well beyond Los Angeles. Eric Nusbaum asks an urgent modern question: What do the things we love actually cost? And who pays the price?"—Jay Caspian Kang, writer-at-large, New York Times Magazine

Great book about LA history

Well written, well researched, brilliant and entertaining.

Worth a listen/read! Enjoy it! Go Dodgers!

Once Upon a Time at Dodger Stadium

Professional baseball: to love it and hate it is to know it. Nusbuam was unrelenting in his effort to examine the deepest roots of baseball, LA, and the lives forever changed by it. His scholarly approach, objectivity, and obsessive detail produced a baseball book like no other.

Go blue!!!!

Great history of a place I love. Very insightful. I recommend this read for Dodger fans.

Not really about baseball

Disappointed, very little of it had anything to do with baseball. Some of the stories were somewhat interesting but it’s just not what it seems like it’s going to be, even reading the information page

Great Read

Great read, not what I was expecting! The History of the city and Dodger stadium is fascinating.

The Dodgers and Chavez Ravine. Enlightening.

An honest look at the events that transpired that led to the building of Dodgers Stadium and how it affected the families who lived in the area and how they were treated. In depth and well written. The only problem I had was with the narrator. He simply mispronounced many names because he was putting a Spanish accent to some names and words that simply were not meant to be pronounced as such.

Good Read

Would recommend to anyone who wants to know how the land at and around Dodger Stadium was purchased and the affect it had to the many families living in the community where it was constructed.

Baseball - Politics - History and more

If you are looking for a book about baseball only, this will not fill the need - I thought the book was about baseball but it was much more. I enjoy history and this book fills the need for the history of LA, Mexico, and some baseball.

Although the basis of the book appears to be about baseball, it is more about the politics that took place in and around Los Angelos leading up to the building of Dodger Stadium. All of this information is needed as an understanding but it felt more of a political history book than baseball.

I enjoyed the book but some of the deep-rooted political undertones started to annoy me.

There were times that I felt the author threw in names of Dodger players to fill a quota of baseball information.

It’s great to learn the story

It’s good to know what happened on the land that is now dodges stadium. This is a great and insightful book. My only complain is the narration, with the Spanish language words. You can’t really understand what he says. He says it so quickly. And I am a native Spanish speaker. But it’s such a good book. Def recommend.

Memories of LA and the Dodgers

I was born in the area of Chinatown in 1949 and remember attending a Dodger game at age 9 at the Coliseum. I remember walking through Elysian Park and sitting above Chavez Ravine watching the bulldozers move dirt for Dodger Stadium. Though I have lived in Orange County for 50 years, I am forever a Dodger fan. This book brought back so many memories of my lifetime with names, places, and events I knew well and also the same that I was ignorant of. The story telling was captivating and I feel truthful and non-judge mental. I have been enlightened and am thankful to have read this book.