Customer Reviews

The Dodgers Encyclopedia

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I purchased this Dodgers encyclopedia in the hopes of learning more about the team's rich and colorful history. While this book does contain a lot of history and facts about the Dodger organization it is not very well organized. Had the writer better organized and presented in a chronological manner along with more detailed team rosters and more on the great rivalries such as the Giants, the Big Red Machine/Little Red Wagon (Reds) and last but not least the love em' or hate em' Yankees, I would have given this book a much higher rating. Sadly I was hoping for more...

Brings back many fond memories of the Dodgers and Brooklyn.

Great reading.

I'm NOT a fan of the Los Angeles incarnation of my beloved Bums, so I have to admit to a slanted perspective on this book. I really think that the Brooklyn Base Ball Club deserves its own separate encyclopedic volume from the Los Angeles National League Franchise, if only because Brooklyn baseball has an unbroken history that stretches from the 1840s to 1957. Baseball was amazingly well woven into the fabric of Brooklyn, and the last two decades of that long life were years of wonder. Compared to their Brooklyn pedigree, the Los Angeles team is still comparatively wet behind the ears.

Having admitted my prejudice, I'm afraid that any other criticisms will sound gratuitous. Unfortunately, this book is sloppily edited and incomplete, the picture quality is poor, and my overall impression of this book is one of disappointment. I got this as a gift, and I enjoyed the Brooklyn material for what it was, and appreciated the LA material as part of the overall history, but I think the authors could have done a whole lot better both editorially and in presentation.