The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball
- ISBN-10
- 0618213554
- ISBN-13
- 9780618213559
- Pages
- 445
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Glenn Stout
Description
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.
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