Once a Bum, Always a Dodger: My Life in Baseball from Brooklyn to Los Angeles Robert A

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University of Kentucky UKnowledge Library Faculty and Staff ubP lications University of Kentucky Libraries 2-1-1990 [Review of] Once a Bum, Always a Dodger: My Life in Baseball from Brooklyn to Los Angeles Robert A. Aken University of Kentucky, [email protected] Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_facpub Part of the Collection Development and Management Commons, and the Sports Studies Commons Repository Citation Aken, Robert A., "[Review of] Once a Bum, Always a Dodger: My Life in Baseball from Brooklyn to Los Angeles" (1990). Library Faculty and Staff Publications. 178. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_facpub/178 This Review is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Kentucky Libraries at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Library Faculty and Staff ubP lications by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact [email protected]. [Review of] Once a Bum, Always a Dodger: My Life in Baseball from Brooklyn to Los Angeles Notes/Citation Information Published in Library Journal, v. 115, issue 2, p. 89. © 1990 Library Journal. All rights reserved. The opc yright holder has granted the permission for posting the article here. This review is available at UKnowledge: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_facpub/178 Drysdale, Don with Bob Verdi. Once a Bum, Always a Dodger: My Life in Base ball from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. St. Martin's. Mar. 1990. c.256p. pho togs. ISBN 0-312-03902-6. $18.95. SPORTS Verdi, Chicago Tribune columnist and co-author of McMahon! (Warner, 1986) and Harry Caray's Holy Cow! (Random, 1989), has given Drysdale his own voice in this nostalgic look at Drysdale's ca reer with the Dodgers organization, and the nature of the changes in the game. Drysdale' s colorful anecdotes and opin ions make for an informative, enjoyable book, as he describes his teammates (e.g., Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snyder), his bosses (Buzzie Bavasi, Walter Alston, Walter O'Malley), his style (including his "mean" nature in protecting the plate and his use of the spitball), and his broadcasting career. Drysdale clearly has a great Jove for the game the way it used to be: Brooklyn and the old Dodgers made a powerful impression on him, and will on the read er, too. This belongs in all baseball col lections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ I 1!15/89.]-Robert Aken, Univ. of Ken tucky Libs., Lexington u n LIBRARY JOURNAU FEBR UARY J. 1990 89 .

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