The rise and fall of Dodgertown
Subtitle: 60 years of baseball in Vero Beach
By: Rody Johnson.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780813031941
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Brooklyn Dodgers select Vero; title: The future of the Brooklyn baseball team is here; title: Branch Rickey's kingdom by the sea; title: Call me Walter; title: Grace and the boys of summer; title: Champions of the world; title: So we're going; title: Los Angeles Dodgers; title: Dodgers not being booted; title: The Dodgers and Vero prevail; title: Wins and losses; title: Glad the sixties were over; title: A team and a town in transition; title: A new era; title: Hail to the chief; title: We love our Vero Beach Dodgers; title: Ups and downs; title: Refuse to lose; title: Not for sale; title: Like leaving your spouse after fifty years; title: The mystique is gone; title: Big, bad media company; title: We don't like 'em much anymore; title: Fear for the future; title: What's up next, Skip?; title: The ugly and the lovely; title: Like Brooklyn, a fond memory.