Glory Days with the Dodgers, and Other Days with Others

by John Roseboro and Bill Libby

Book Overview

Autobiography/memoir of the Los Angeles Dodgers major league baseball team's all-star catcher of the 1960s John Roseboro. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689108648
• ISBN13: 9780689108648
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Tells it like it was

I love baseball, and Roseboro's autobiography is one of the few that have any real substance to it (Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms - Auker; Eddie Mathews - Buege were two of the others). Roseboro provides the lowdown on what it was like to come up in the Dodger organization, who helped him and who didn't, what it was like to be a black man at the Dodger's Vero Beach training facility, what it was like to catch Koufax and Drysdale, play for Durocher and Alston, O'Malley and Griffith, life on the road and how certain players took liberties. But most of all, Roseboro is very frank about his own shortcomings, and even owns up to instigating the famous Marichal incident. I couldn't put it down - a very good and honestly written book.

A GREAT BALL PLAYER THAT DIDN'T GET RECOGNITION

I enjoyed this book very much. John Roseboro Jr. told of his life growing up in a very small town. His love for his family, and his accomplishments as a pro ball player for the Dodgers. John was a great ball player who should have been recognized more. Hopefully, he will write another great book. Marilyn Yates

Classic baseball bio

One of the most sought after baseball bio's published in the last 25 years, this is one of the very few sports autobiographies that really shows what is was like to be a "star" and what life was like after the spotlight in baseball retirement. Now out of print, the book has become quite a sought after item among Dodger memorabilia collectors and baseball history enthusiasts.