Ryder Edwards
ASIN: B00KP3EKGW
Publisher: Black Mesa Publishing
Pages: 157
The Dodgers won World Championships in Brooklyn and LA during the same decade and boast a devoted fan base on both coasts and all points in between; and today, thanks to past stars like Fernando Valenzuela and Chan Ho Park, that fan base is spread the world over.Every Major League team has a history—but this is the franchise of Jackie Robinson. Every Major League team has players they call “heroes”—but with Robinson you can drop the emphasis: he’s truly an American icon, American hero, baseball legend, and Dodger great.This is the franchise of Walter Alston, Leo Durocher and Tommy Lasorda; Walter O’Malley, Larry MacPhail and Branch Rickey; the timeless calls of Vin Scully; and no fewer than 43 Hall of Fame players who spent a portion of their careers with the Dodgers.You can’t tell the story of baseball’s history without the Dodgers.This trivia book is intended to help diehard Dodger ...