A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader

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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); Harold Parrott (excerpted from The Lords of Baseball and
Owen Drops Third Strike ); Robin Roberts and C. Paul Rogers, III (excerpted from My Life in Baseball); Red Smith ( Erskine Fans 14 Yanks,

Over the River
and
Last Chapter ).