"Not a conventional championship-season kind of treatment but a thoughtful, comprehensive, and even deeply personal account of a boisterous era whose echoes remain loud, even painful."—Kirkus "Fallon gets the tone of the events just right—the boisterous energy and the deflation, the nervous highs and the depressive lows of Dodgerland and L.A."—Ron Slate, On the Seawall "This book is recommended not ... Read moreonly for baseball fans but also for readers who are interested in social history or who want to learn more about the culture of Los Angeles during that time."—Guy Who Reviews Sports Books "Michael Fallon combines baseball, culture, politics, and social issues into a neat package in Dodgerland."—Bob D'Angelo, Sports Bookie "Dodgerland is a fine baseball book. Fallon is a talented writer, who is able to effortlessly weave together a number of major storylines in order to make the enormous tapestry that this story is ultimately part of."—Baseball Historian “Dodgerland is a fascinating study of American culture in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Among the characters marching across the pages are Tom Wolfe, Hugh Hefner, Charles Manson, Jim Bouton, Mayor Tom Bradley, Frank Zappa, and, of course, the men who bled Dodger blue, including imperfect heroes such as Steve Garvey, Don Sutton, Reggie Smith, and Glenn Burke. All came for the American Dream. Not all of them made it.”—Peter Golenbock, author of The Bronx Zoo and Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers    “An intriguing, often audacious tale that weaves in such iconic characters as John Wayne and Bob Marley, Tom Wolfe and Tommy Lasorda. In the eye of this cultural hurricane, for a moment or two, stood the 1977–78 Los Angeles Dodgers. Here is their story—deftly told.”—Tim Wendel, author of Castro’s Curveball and Summer of ’68   “Michael Fallon has given us the California counterpart to The Bronx Is Burning, a sweeping yet intimate portrayal of the seventies’ denouement on the West Coast. Here’s the American Dream in Dodger blue, a black mayor, a pioneering journalist, and a hardworking hardware store owner.”—John Rosengren, award-winning author of The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball’s Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption Show Less