cover image A Day in the Season of the La Dodgers

A Day in the Season of the La Dodgers

Zimmerman, Tom Zimmerman. S.P.I. Books, $16.95 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-944007-89-1

An expansion of a series of articles the author wrote for the Los Angeles Downtown News , this light and amiable book is of interest for its photographs rather than the text. Zimmerman, a baseball fan, not an expert, focuses on people: colorful manager Tommy Lasorda, stars Orel Hershiser and Kirk Gibson, less-famed athletes Danny Heep and Mickey Hatcher. Here too are broadcasters Vin Scully and Don Drysdale, newspaper reporters and those who make the team and the stadium run smoothly--equipment managers, ushers, peanut vendors, security people, members of the postgame cleanup crew. Dodgers fans should love it. (July)