The Los Angeles Dodgers are one of Major League Baseball’s most storied teams, with a fan base that stretches back to their origins as the Brooklyn Dodgers. They’ve made history with their championship record, the breaking of baseball’s color line, and their famous rivalries. These books about the Los Angeles Dodgers capture the excitement of the game and share fascinating facts about the team.
DYNASTY: The Dodgers’ Journey to Back-to-Back World Series
This coffee-table book chronicles the Los Angeles Dodgers’ journey to back-to-back titles. The culmination was one of the most thrilling World Series of all time, in which the Dodgers narrowly defeated the Toronto Blue Jays.
Published by the Los Angeles Times, the book documents the 2025 season through the work of journalists and photographers who were with the Dodgers all year long.
Whether you’re a die-hard Dodgers fan or simply love baseball, this is the perfect book for reliving one of the most magnificent seasons in the sport’s history. Published January 1, 2026.
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
Brooklyn is one of New York City’s most memorable boroughs, known for its distinct culture—and for its love of baseball, especially the Brooklyn Dodgers. New York Herald Tribune reporter Roger Kahn not only grew up in Brooklyn but also covered the Dodgers, chronicling the team up to its 1955 World Series victory and tracking the players’ lives in the years that followed.
The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers by Leahy, Michael
Through their struggles and victories, the 1960s Los Angeles Dodgers made both baseball and political history amid the racism and paranoia of a tumultuous decade. Leahy follows seven principal players with different backgrounds and political views, showing the era’s transformative events through their eyes. These include the continuing impact of integration on the game, the movement to unionize players, the civil rights movement, and the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum
Stealing Home is a moving story about the Dodgers’ arrival in Los Angeles, the politics and misguided idealism that brought them there, and the fight to make Los Angeles a big-league city and build Dodger Stadium. Ultimately, it’s a book about baseball, the American dream, and family. Despite running over 350 pages, it’s an easy yet engrossing read.
The Best Team Money Can Buy by Molly Knight
The Los Angeles Dodgers rank second only to the New York Yankees as the most valuable team in MLB, despite changes in ownership and roster over the years. If you’ve ever wondered how this franchise built its winning, big-spending powerhouse, this book gives you an inside look.
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Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles by Michael D’Antonio
Walter O’Malley owned the Dodgers from 1950 to 1979, and under his leadership the team was among the most profitable in baseball. O’Malley moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, effectively bringing Major League Baseball to the West Coast at a time when no team played west of Kansas City, Missouri. He prioritized in-person attendance over televised games to boost concession revenue and make baseball a bigger part of everyday American life.
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The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball by Glenn Stout and Richard A. Johnson
This book pairs a complete narrative history of the Dodgers with more than 200 photographs, many of them never before seen. Stout’s lively writing and Johnson’s striking images combine to create a rich, engrossing story with a timeless feel. It’s like poring over an American family album, baseball-style.
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy by Jane Leavy
This biography captures the life of the legendary Sandy Koufax, who won the Cy Young Award, given to baseball’s best pitchers, three times. More than an exploration of how we perceive heroes like Koufax, it also examines how he saw himself, the path that led him to fame, and the mystery of his self-imposed exile.
Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
Jackie Robinson first protested racial segregation while serving in the Army during World War II, when he refused to move to the back of a military bus. In 1947, he became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball’s modern era when he debuted at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the sport’s color line. Among his many honors, he became the first Black player to win the National League Most Valuable Player award, in 1949. This biography highlights the character, talent, and restraint that helped him challenge segregation across many areas of American life.
Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
In this memoir, Goodwin introduces us to her mother, who taught her to love reading, and her father, who nurtured her love of baseball and the Dodgers. The book closes with two losses: the Dodgers’ departure from Brooklyn after the 1957 season and the death of Goodwin’s mother shortly afterward. It’s the story of her childhood in postwar suburban New York in the 1950s, and of the end of both.
Out of This World: How the Los Angeles Dodgers Captured Back-to-Back World Series Championships by The Los Angeles Daily News
Good luck, divine help, natural talent, and a good upbringing aren’t enough to explain the Los Angeles Dodgers’ success. Some players overcame personal hardships, while the franchise weathered bankruptcy, turmoil, and painful playoff defeats. So winning back-to-back championships, capped by the 2025 World Series victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, is indeed out of this world.
Los Angeles Times Dodgers Champions Again! by The Editors of LA Times
Another commemoration of the Dodgers, this book celebrates the team’s seven-game victory over the Blue Jays, which clinched their second consecutive World Series title and ninth overall. The first of those back-to-back titles came against the New York Yankees, their historic World Series rival since 1941. This collectible edition also includes an in-depth recap of the Dodgers’ triumphs.
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Read this excellent The Guardian piece If the Dodgers are bad for baseball, why was the World Series so much fun?
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