Blog / Month: March 2021

There’s never been a relationship between a Major League team and its spring training home like the one between the Dodgers and Vero Beach. For 61 springs, first the Brooklyn Dodgers and then the Los Angeles Dodgers called Dodgertown home.

In the years since the Dodgers moved their springtime operations to Arizona, the historic complex has been managed by several entities. Today, it’s run by Major League Baseball, which changed the name “Historic Dodgertown” to “The Jackie Robinson Training Complex.”

Check out our look back at what made this sprawling facility so endearing — and how it’s being used now.

This is one book that will give you a LOT to think about!

First is an examination of what’s wrong with the sport of Baseball, and just as importantly, how it can be fixed.

Once you’re done reading that, you flip the book over and there’s a complete second book! This second part is a walk through Baseball history, featuring a countdown of the biggest, most-dramatic finishes in the history of the game … Carlton Fisk’s home run in the 1975 World Series … Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard ’round the world” … David Freese’s heroics in the 2011 Fall Classic (this one still galls me as a Rangers fan) … and the immortal 1988 home run by Kirk Gibson in Game 1 of the World Series.

Lots of great reading in this “flip book!” Plus, it’s autographed by author Howard Peretz, known far and wide as the Old School Sports Junkie. Just $14.95 plus shipping, it makes a great gift, but you’ll love reading it yourself!