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The rise and fall of Dodgertown : 60 years of baseball in Vero Beach /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Rody
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2008]
Subjects:
Holman Stadium (Vero Beach, Fla.) > History.
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) > History.
Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team) > History.
Spring training (Baseball) > Florida > Vero Beach > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Brooklyn Dodgers select Vero
  • The future of the Brooklyn baseball team is here
  • Branch Rickey's kingdom by the sea
  • Call me Walter
  • Grace and the boys of summer
  • Champions of the world
  • So we're going
  • Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Dodgers not being booted
  • The Dodgers and Vero prevail
  • Wins and losses
  • Glad the sixties were over
  • A team and a town in transition
  • A new era
  • Hail to the chief
  • We love our Vero Beach Dodgers
  • Ups and downs
  • Refuse to lose
  • Not for sale
  • Like leaving your spouse after fifty years
  • The mystique is gone
  • Big, bad media company
  • We don't like 'em much anymore
  • Fear for the future
  • What's up next, Skip?
  • The ugly and the lovely
  • Like Brooklyn, a fond memory.