Electric October

An “entertaining, well-researched” account of the first World Series to be televised—and the forgotten stories of six Yankees and Dodgers ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). The 1947 World Series was “the most exciting ever” in the words of Joe DiMaggio, with a decade’s worth of drama packed into seven games between the mighty New York Yankees and underdog Brooklyn Dodgers. It was Jackie Robinson’s first Series, a postwar spectacle featuring Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway and President Harry