Books
Allen, Maury. Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers. Champaign: Sports Publishing 2005.
Barber, Red. 1947—When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball. Garden City: Doubleday 1982.
Barber, Red and Robert Creamer. Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat. Lincoln: Bison (University of Nebraska) 1997.
Claire, Fred. My 30 Years in Dodger Blue. Champaign: Sports Publishing 2004.
D’Agostino, Dennis and Bonnie Crosby. Through a Blue Lens: The Brooklyn Dodgers Photographs of Barney Stein. Chicago: Triumph 2007.
Delsohn, Steve. True Blue. New York: HarperCollins 2001.
Edwards, Bob. Fridays with Red: A Radio Friendship. New York: Simon & Schuster 1993.
Eig, Jonathan. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season. New York: Simon & Schuster 2007.
Erskine, Carl. Tales from the Dodger Dugout. Champaign: Sports Publishing 2001.
Fussman, Cal. After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice and Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes. New York: ESPN Books 2007.
Garvey, Steve (Ken Gurnick, Candace Garvey contributors). My Bat Boy Days: Lessons I Learned from the Boys of Summer. New York: Scribner 2008.
Gleeman, Aaron and Dave Studenmund (ed.). The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2006. Skokie: ACTA 2005.
Green, Daniel S. The Perfect Pitch: The Biography of Roger Owens, The Famous Peanut Man at Dodger Stadium. Tamarac: Lumina 2003
Honig, Donald. The Man in the Dugout. Chicago: Follett 1977.
James, Bill. The Bill James Baseball Abstract 1982. New York: Ballantine 1982.
James, Bill. The Bill James Baseball Abstract 1985. New York: Ballantine 1985.
James, Bill. The Bill James Baseball Abstract 1986. New York: Ballantine 1982.
James, Bill. The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers. New York: Scribner 1997.
James, Bill. The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. New York: Villard 1985.
James, Bill. The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. New York: The Free Press 2001.
James, Bill. The Politics of Glory. New York: Macmillan 1994.
James, Bill and Rob Neyer. The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers. New York: Simon and Schuster 2004.
Jareck, Joe, Josh Rawitch et al. Los Angeles Dodgers, 2008 Los Angeles Dodgers Information Guide. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Dodgers 2008.
Jordan, Pat. The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan. New York: Persea 2008.
Kahn, Roger. The Boys of Summer. New York: Harper & Row 1971.
Langill, Mark. Dodger Stadium. Charleston: Arcadia 2004.
Langill, Mark. Dodgertown. Charleston: Arcadia 2004.
Langill, Mark. Los Angeles Dodgers. Charleston: Arcadia 2004.
Lasorda, Tommy and David Fisher, The Artful Dodger. New York: Arbor 1985.
Leavy, Jane. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy. New York: HarperCollins 2002.
Lowenfish, Lee. Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska 2007.
Maraniss, David. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero. New York: Simon & Schuster 2006.
McNeil, William. The Dodgers Encyclopedia. Sports Publishing LLC, 2000.
Miller, Marvin. A Whole Different Ball Game. New York: Birch Lane 1991.
Neyer, Rob. Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends. New York: Fireside 2008.
Rampersad, Arnold. Jackie Robinson: A Biography. New York: Knopf 1997.
Ruck, Rob. The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic. Lincoln: Bison (University of Nebraska) 1999.
Shapiro, Michael. The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together. New York: Doubleday 2003.
Stout, Glenn and Richard A. Johnson. The Dodgers. New York: Houghton Mifflin 2004.
Sullivan, Neil J. The Dodgers Move West. New York: Oxford 1987.
Tygiel, Jules. Past Time: Baseball as History. New York: Oxford 2001.
Wolpin, Stewart. Bums No More! The Championship Season of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers. New York: St. Martin 1995.
Articles, Documents and Presentations
City of Los Angeles Resolution, May 11, 1959.
Smith, Dave. “Play By Play Analysis of the 1951 National League Pennant Race,” 2001.
Timmermann, Bob. “Presentation on the History of Dodger Stadium,” 2008.
Magazines
Irish America Magazine (Kelly Candaele)
Sport (Al Stump)
Sports Illustrated (Tom C. Brody, Robert W. Creamer, Gerald Holland, Larry Keith, Herman Weiskopf)
News Services
The Associated Press (Ted Smith)
United Press International (Jim Cour, Milton Richman)
Newspapers
Beverly Hills Times (Bill Stout)
Brooklyn Eagle
Los Angeles Daily News (Matt McHale)
Los Angeles Examiner (Vincent X. Flaherty)
Los Angeles Mirror-News
Los Angeles Times (James Bates, Dwight Chapin, Jerry Crowe, Mike DiGiovanna, Ron Fimrite, Frank Finch, Earl Gutskey, Dan Hafner, John Hall, Randy Harvey, Mark Heisler, Dylan Hernandez, Maryann Hudson, Mike Littwin, Sam McManis, Jim Murray, Ross Newhan, Bob Oates, Scott Ostler, Charles Perry, Bill Plaschke, Jeff Prugh, Howard Rosenberg, Bill Shaikin, Keith Thursby, Sid Ziff, Paul Zimmermann)
New York Daily News (Dick Young)
New York Times (Dave Anderson, Murray Chass, Rick Lyman)
San Francisco Chronicle (Ray Ratto)
The Saturday Evening Post (W.C. Heinz)
The Sporting News (Harold C. Burr, Tommy Holmes, Joe Vila)
Village Voice (Gersh Kuntzman)
Wall Street Journal (Joshua Prager)
Websites
19th Century Baseball (19cbaseball.com)
Ballparks (ballparks.com)
The Baseball Biography Project (Society of American Baseball Research: Eric Enders, John Saccoman, Stew Thornley: bioproj.sabr.org)
Baseball-Reference.com
Baseball Analysts (Rich Lederer: baseballanalysts.com)
BaseballLibrary.com
Baseball Prospectus (baseballprospectus.com)
Blue Heaven (Ernest Reyes: dodgersblueheaven.blogspot.com)
Dodger Thoughts (Jon Weisman: dodgerthoughts.com)
The Futility Infielder (Jay Jaffe: futilityinfielder.com)
The Griddle (Bob Timmermann: griddle.baseballtoaster.com)
The Hardball Times (Chris Jaffe and Steve Treder: thehardballtimes.com)
Los Angeles Dodger Adult Baseball Camp (ladabc.com)
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (baseballhalloffame.org)
The Official Site of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Dodgers.com)
The Official Site of Major League Baseball (Ben Platt: mlb.com)
National High Five Day (nationalhighfiveday.com)
Bob Baker’s Newsthinking (newsthinking.com)
Philippe’s (philippes.com)
The Sport Gallery (thesportgallery.com)
Walter O’Malley: The Official Website (Robert Schweppe, Brent Shyer: walteromalley.com)
WGUC 90.9 FM (wguc.org)
TV/DVD/Film
Mechner, Jordan (writer and director). Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story. PBS/JAM Flicks 2004.
Los Angeles Dodgers Vintage World Series Films. Major League Baseball Productions 2006.
Johnson, Dorothy M. (short story), James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck (screenplay). The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. Paramount 1962.
Nightline (ABC)
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