An overview of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, discussing its players, history, last season, great moments, records, and prospects.
It is the vivid story of how the Dodgers became one of the great successes in major league history, winning nine National League pennants and five World Series championships.
... Martinez: 1996 Pedro Martinez: 1992–93 Ramon Martinez: 1988–98 Ramon E. Martinez: 2006–07 Teddy Martinez: 1977–79 ... Antonio Osuna: 1995–2000 Pablo Ozuna: 2008 Tom Paciorek: 1970–75 Vicente Padilla: 2009–11 Ed Palmquist: 1960–61 ...
Los Angeles Dodgers 101 is required reading for every Dodgers fan!
A basic overview of the Los Angeles Dodgers, including their history and legendary players, also introduces baseball terminology, equipment, and game rules. On board pages.
In the New York Times the front-page headline was “Jackie Robinson Terms Stand of Robeson on Negroes False.“ In the Los Angeles Times, it was “Jackie Robinson Brands Robeson Claims Silly.” Jackie may have given a nuanced and impassioned ...
"The book offers a history of Chavez Ravine with special attention to the period after World War II to the early 1960s, studying Los Angeles and its political structure, the contractions in policies around public housing, the impact on ...
Of course, if the Dodgers were winning and Malone was making good personnel decisions, his outlandishness would not have mattered. But Malone was failing on both of these counts. Things came to ahead in April after Malone got into an ...
To what ends and to whose benefit, Podair asks? Hard questions, indeed, that other American cities with subsidized stadiums are asking too."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "There's a real need for this book.
Highlights players, managers, and memorable games in this history of the baseball team which began in Brooklyn in 1890 and moved to the West Coast in 1958.
Dodger Stadium is also one of only two such parks built during the 20th century constructed entirely with private funds.