Dugout Dirt is a column with regular musings about baseball, baseball books, and baseball movies.
Dugout Dirt is a column with regular musings about baseball, baseball books, and baseball movies.
Danielle SolzmanBestselling author Jonathan Eig revisited Jackie Robinson’s pivotal first season in his 2007 biography, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season. In shattering the color barrier, Robinson ended…
Danielle SolzmanBranca’s Pitch goes beyond The Shot Heard Round the World as retired Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca works on writing his memoir. While perusing through the baseball documentaries available through the…
Danielle SolzmanPull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story by Curt Smith is the long overdue biography of the longtime Dodgers announcer. I’ve had the paperback since 2014 but it took…
Danielle SolzmanOriginally published April 17, 2013: Without Branch Rickey signing Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, many players would never have been able to play in…
