Authors:Glenn Stout, Richard A. Johnson,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: dodgers, baseball, years
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2004-09-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0618213554
ISBN-13: 9780618213559

Dodgers. The word conjures different things to different people, but its distinction — and notoriety — is universal. In the annals of baseball, the history of few other teams can compare to the rich legacy of the Dodgers. Their constituency includes fans from Bensonhurst to Burbank. Their colorful past — “dem bums,” Jackie Robinson and the boys of summer, Walter O’Malley, Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda, “bleeding Dodger blue” — has enlivened baseball in innumerable, immeasurable ways. And their legacy, casting a 120-year shadow, remains essential to the very nature of the game. In a

Author: William McNeil
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Keywords: encyclopedia, dodgers
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2003-04-04
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1582616337
ISBN-13: 9781582616339

The Dodgers Encyclopedia: Second Edition is the definitive book on Los Angeles and Brooklyn Dodgers baseball. It traces the history of one of Major League Baseball’s most successful organizations, from the misty beginnings of its predecessors in rural Brooklyn more than 140 years ago, through their formative years in the major leagues, as a member of the American Association from 1884 through 1889, to a full-fledged representative of the National League since 1890. It covers the exciting and often zany years in Brooklyn through 1957, as well as a long and successful sojourn in Southern C

Author: Steven Travers
Publisher: MVP Books
Keywords: present, amp, past, dodgers
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-04-27
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0760335273
ISBN-13: 9780760335277

From their origins as the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1884, through their departure from their beloved borough in 1957, to their record-breaking popularity in sunny Los Angeles, the Dodgers baseball team has been an unstoppable force in professional baseball for well over a century. The franchise has captured a record 21 National League titles, won six World Series championships, and produced dozens of Hall-of-Famers. The Dodgers revolutionized the sports landscape with the signing of Jackie Robinson in 1947 and have boasted a list of players that reads like an all-time all-star team—from Walter

Author: Neil Sullivan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: west, dodgers
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1989-06-08
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0195059220
ISBN-13: 9780195059229

For many New Yorkers, the removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers--perhaps the most popular baseball team of all time--to Los Angeles in 1957 remains one of the most traumatic events since World War II. Neil J. Sullivan’s controversial reassessment of a story that has reached almost mythic proportions in its many retellings shifts responsibility for the move onto the local governmental maneuverings that occurred on both sides of the continent. Conventional wisdom has it that Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley cold-heartedly abandoned the devoted Brooklyn fans for the easy money of Los Angel

Author: Andrew Paul Mele
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: reader, dodgers, brooklyn
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2005-01-31
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 078641913X
ISBN-13: 9780786419135

The Brooklyn Dodgers are one of the most popular and most beloved baseball teams of all time. This book is a collection of writings about the Dodgers, arranged chronologically to give the readers a sense of the team’s long history. Included are news reports, articles and excerpts from both fiction and non-fiction works, written by some of the best baseball writers of the past sixty years. Among them are James L. Terry (excerpted from Long Before the Dodgers); John Lardner ("The Unbelievable Babe Herman"); Red Barber and Robert Creamer (excerpted from Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat); Harol

Author: Maury Allen
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Keywords: dodgers, days, remembered, brooklyn
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1582619433
ISBN-13: 9781582619439

In Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers, Allen has captured the emotion, the drama and the sweet reverie of what many baseball people and fans consider the greatest sports triumph ever, the 1955 Brooklyn Series win over the Yankees. It was the one and only Brooklyn championship for the team filled with Hall of Famers like Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and even fringe lefty Tommy Lasorda. Two years after the title the team moved from BrooklynÂ’s cozy Ebbets Field to laconic Los Angeles. All of the 11 surviving members of that historic

Author: Andrew Goldblatt
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: one, rivalry, teams, cities, dodgers, four, giants
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0786416408
ISBN-13: 9780786416400

The Giant-Dodger rivalry was considered the best in baseball by 1890 and remains the game’s oldest and most storied rivalry today. It’s remarkable how often both teams have been good, how rarely they’ve both been bad, and how tenaciously the underdog has battled in between. Through 12 decades (and in two sets of cities 3,000 miles apart) Giant and Dodger partisans have rooted so passionately against each other that, just as during the Civil War, conflicting loyalties have divided neighbors and even families. This is the definitive account of the rivalry, from its roots in amate