New York City Baseball: The Last Golden Age

Harvey Frommer. Mariner Books, $9.95 (234pp) ISBN 978-0-15-665500-2

In this nostalgic but often tedious book, Frommer chronicles 11 remarkable years when the Yankees, the Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers won 17 pennants and nine World Series among them. Photos. (Apr.)

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