Stealing home Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between Nusbaum, Eric creator author. text bibliography History. nyu 2020 2020 First edition. monographic eng print xii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm "Dodger Stadium is an American icon. The oldest ballpark west of the Mississippi -- and the third oldest overall -- it is a shrine to baseball and an essential feature of the Los Angeles cityscape. Yet the story of how it was built has a dark side. To clear space for the stadium, the city tore down low-income, Hispanic-friendly housing, resulting in a dramatic confrontation between the County Sheriff and the one family-the Arechigas- who refused to yield their home.In Stealing Home, Eric Nusbaum -- a fluent Spanish-speaker, Dodgers fan, and lifelong Angeleno -- tells the stories of the people whose homes were destroyed, their conflict with the bureaucrats and money men of Los Angeles-notably Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, and a well-intentioned activist named Frank Wilkinson -- and shows how their lives were overrun by the wheel of history. Stealing Home is a vibrant work of baseball and urban history, a story about how our ideals can betray us, and the people who pay the price when they do"-- Eric Nusbaum. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us-ca Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team) History 20th century Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.) History 20th century Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team) Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.) History 20th century Mexican Americans Housing California Los Angeles History 20th century Mexican Americans Housing California Los Angeles California Los Angeles Chávez Ravine 1900-1999 fast GV875.L6 N87 2020 796.357/640979494 Stealing home Nusbaum, Eric, New York : PublicAffairs, 2020. 1st. (DLC) 2019041743 9781541742215 1541742214 2019041742 pda,print DLC 190917 20250318213202.9 in00004169543 eng