Play Ball! traced significant Dodgers stories,
including the team's arrival in 1957, Wally Moon and baseball
at the L.A. Coliseum, Sandy Koufax, Don
Drysdale, Walter O'Malley and the battle over Chavez Ravine,
Roy Campanella, Vin Scully, Jaime Jarrin, Maury Wills, James
Roark's Pulitzer Prize-nominated photograph of Rick Monday's
rescue of the American Flag, Tommy John surgery, Andy Messersmith
and the advent of free agency, Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey,
Dusty Baker and the first "high five," Fernando
Mania, Al Campanis, Orel Hershiser, Kirk Gibson, and more.
Team historian and author Mark Langill gave a noontime
"Photographer's Eye" talk about the Dodgers
on Wednesday, August 13, 2008.
Related links:
Images from the Exhibition (http://www.lapl.org/newsroom/releases/Dodgers.pdf)
Exhibition Press Release (http://www.lapl.org/newsroom/dodgers/index.html)
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