Praise for A BROOKLYN DODGERS READER Edited by Andrew Paul Mele Forward by Carl Erskine .."..should become one of the standard histories of the irrepressible Dodgers." - Donald Honig "One of the finest collections of baseball writings ever assembled." - Tom Knight Brooklyn Baseball Historian " It's all there, told in the words of Red Smith, Jimmy Canon, and W. C. Heinz, guys who would be worth reading if they were writing about lawn care." - Jay Price Staten Island Advance
Praise for A BROOKLYN DODGERS READER Edited by Andrew Paul Mele Forward by Carl Erskine .."..should become one of the standard histories of the irrepr...
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...
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,...