Paul Dickson’s first baseball biography was about Bill Veeck, one of the most interesting characters in the sport’s history. He’s taken an even bigger challenge in his second such book. It’s not easy ...

“They say a lot of things about Leo Durocher and many of the things they say are not nice.” So started a nice newspaper article about Durocher published in September of 1969 at the end of the baseball ...

Exactly 75 years ago, Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher declared that “nice guys finish last.” It was a memorable quip, but was he right? How this question played out in Durocher’s career is ...

With his next win, Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy will past Leo Durocher for No. 11 in all-time victories. The significance? It tied him with Leo Durocher for No. 11 on the all-time wins list for ...

It was a bitter afternoon for the New York Giants’ Leo (“The Lip”) Durocher. His old ball club, the Brooklyn Dodgers, was spraying Giant pitches into the far reaches of the Polo Grounds. Each time ...

In the land beyond the Brooklyn Bridge, where 2,800,000 real human beings live among baby carriages, delicatessens, and streets of all-alike houses, spring was beginning to stir. Robins and forsythia ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. On June 9, 1945 at Ebbets Field in ...

Programs sold at baseball games have always been rather staid publications, featuring scorecards, team schedules, roster listings, posed and action shots of players, and the like. But one particular ...