The Dodgers Encyclopedia

• Author : William McNeil
• Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
• Release : 01 September 2000

The Dodgers Encyclopedia 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 oftenzany years in Brooklyn through 1957, as well as

• Author : Glenn Stout
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release : 30 July 2021

Traces the rich sports legacy of the Dodgers, from their origins in Brooklyn in 1884 to the present day, detailing such key events as the series of pennant races in the 1940s and 1950s and Kirk Gibson's home run in the 1988 World Series.

• Author : Tom Zimmerman
• Publisher : SP Books
• Release : 30 July 1990

Briefly traces the history of the Dodgers, describes what goes on at the stadium on the day of a game, and shares the comments of fans, players, front office people, and those who work at the stadium

• Author : Mark Langill
• Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
• Release : 30 July 2021

Sandy Koufax. Don Drysdale. Maury Wills. Steve Garvey. Don Sutton. Fernando Valenzuela. Tommy Lasorda. Shawn Green. Eric Gagne. Since 1958, names like these have made the Los Angeles Dodgers into one of baseball's most successful and envied teams. Over the years, the team has won an astonishing nine National League championships and five World Series.Some familiar faces from their Brooklyn roots, including Gil Hodges and Duke Snider, led the Dodgers to their first championship at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1959;

• Author : Mark Rucker
• Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
• Release : 30 July 2021

If there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn. The legacy of this relationship comes down to us in stories of childhoods spent at Ebbets Field and in the stories of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, whose courage changed the face of America. Baseball in Brooklyn goes back to the beginning of the sport, when a young city embraced a new game and, like missionaries, carried

• Author : Maury Allen,Susan Walker
• Publisher : University of Alabama Press
• Release : 16 June 2010

A biography of Fred “Dixie” Walker, a gifted ballplayer who played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers, Dodgers, and Pirates.

• Author : John Nichols
• Publisher : The Creative Company
• Release : 01 July 2007

Examines the history, players, and future of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.

• Author : Richard J. Shmelter
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 20 November 2017

Throughout the history of America's pastime, the Los Angeles Dodgers have risen to the summit of KLMajor League Baseball with an almost romantic aura surrounding the team. Amidst the backdrop of glitz and glamour associated with Hollywood, California, the Dodgers are one of the most treasured gems, not only on American soil, but on an international scale as well. This iconic franchise has been successful on a consist basis thanks to the talents of players and management. All those that

• Author : Frank Graham
• Publisher : SIU Press
• Release : 30 July 2021

First published in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Putnam series of team histories, Frank Graham’s colorful chronicle presents the Brooklyn Dodgers in “all their glory and all their daffiness” from the team’s beginnings as the Atlantics in 1883 through 1943, with a short summary of the 1944 season. In his foreword, Hall of Fame sports writer Jack Lang writes that “in an era that produced for New York sports fans such outstanding sportswriters as Grantland Rice, Sid Mercer, Bill Slocum, Bob

• Author : Bill Beverly
• Publisher : Crown
• Release : 05 April 2016

Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys—including East's hothead younger brother—to kill a key witness hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him,

• Author : K. P. Wee
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 24 August 2018

When most baseball fans think back to the 1988 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics, they probably remember Kirk Gibson’s dramatic home run off Dennis Eckersley, Orel Hershiser’s shutout streak and dominant postseason pitching that got them there, or perhaps the fact that it remains, to this day, the last World Championship for the Dodgers. In The 1988 Dodgers: Reliving the Championship Season, K. P. Wee tells the story of this incredible year. More than just

• Author : Michael Schiavone
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 01 May 2018

In 1957, the Dodgers left their home of Brooklyn, New York, where they had been since their inception in 1884, for the sunny hills of Los Angeles, California. Since arriving in LA, the team has won five World Series and ten NL Pennants, and become one of the top-grossing organizations in Major League Baseball. The Dodgers: 60 Years in LA chronicles the team’s impressive history since arriving in the West Coast. Covering the amazing feats of Dodgers greats such as Steve Garvey,

• Author : Don Lechman
• Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
• Release : 14 August 2012

The Los Angeles Dodgers have always fielded one of the best pitching staffs in the Major Leagues. With Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, Fernando Valenzuela and Orel Hershiser and closers Mike Marshall and Eric Gagne, it's hard to imagine a more sterling roster. After their 1958 arrival from Brooklyn, the Dodgers won five World Series, competed in nine and made the playoffs in eleven other seasons--by leaning on their pitchers. The Dodgers have nine Cy Young Awards, more than any other

• Author : Carl E. Prince
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 03 April 1997

During the 1952 World Series, a Yankee fan trying to watch the game in a Brooklyn bar was told, "Why don't you go back where you belong, Yankee lover?" "I got a right to cheer my team," the intruder responded, "this is a free country." "This ain't no free country, chum," countered the Dodger fan, "this is Brooklyn." Brooklynites loved their "Bums"--Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, and all the murderous parade of regulars who, after years

• Author : Duke Snider,Phil Pepe
• Publisher : Triumph Books
• Release : 01 April 2006

A Brooklyn and L.A. Dodger legend lists the top five all-time Dodgers at each position, spanning the eras of the club's long history and including names such as Jackie Robinson, PeeWee Reese, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Steve Garvey, Mike Piazza, and many more.