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Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s America: white and dark-colored, Jewish and Christian, wealthy and working category, pro-Vietnam and anti-war, fantastic young man and seasoned veteran. The Previous Innocents is a thoughtful, technicolor family portrait of these seven players - friends, mentors, confidants, rivals, and allies - and their storied team that offers an intriguing check out a sport and a country in change. Michael Leahy places these men's lives within the political and social maelstrom that was the period when the conformity of the 1950s offered way to requirements for equality and privileges. Progressively more frustrated over too little real bargaining ability and an oppressive management who meddled in their personal affairs, the players shared an uneasy marriage with the team's leading office. This contention mirrored the discord and doubt made by myriad changes rocking the country: the civil privileges movement, political assassinations, and growing hostility to the escalation of the Vietnam Warfare.
