A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader

<p> 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 them arranged chronologically--news reports articles and excerpts from both fiction and nonfiction works by some of the best baseball writers of the past sixty years. Among them are James L. Terry (from <I>Long Before the Dodgers</I>); John Lardner (The Unbelievable Babe Herman); Red Barber and Robert Creamer (from <I>Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat</I>); Harold Parrott (from <I>The Lords of Baseball</I> and Owen Drops Third Strike); Robin Roberts and C. Paul Rogers III (from <I>My Life in Baseball</I>); and Red Smith (Erskine Fans 14 Yanks Over the River and Last Chapter).</p>