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: value: Brooklyn Dodgers select Vero; value: The future of the Brooklyn baseball team is here; value: Branch Rickey's kingdom by the sea; value: Call me Walter; value: Grace and the boys of summer; value: Champions of the world; value: So we're going; value: Los Angeles Dodgers; value: Dodgers not being booted; value: The Dodgers and Vero prevail; value: Wins and losses; value: Glad the sixties were over; value: A team and a town in transition; value: A new era; value: Hail to the chief; value: We love our Vero Beach Dodgers; value: Ups and downs; value: Refuse to lose; value: Not for sale; value: Like leaving your spouse after fifty years; value: The mystique is gone; value: Big, bad media company; value: We don't like 'em much anymore; value: Fear for the future; value: What's up next, Skip?; value: The ugly and the lovely; value: Like Brooklyn, a fond memory.