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A hardcover book Once a Bum Always a Dodger by Don Drysdale with Bob Verdi. The book is copyright 1990 and is a First Edition book with Library of Congress Data in Publication and an ISBN of 0-312-03902-6. The book is 277 pages long with a section of black and white pictures that is 15 pages long and the pictures have nice captions.
The Table of Contents is as follows: Back to Brooklyn, And Now Pitching, Dodgertown at Last, I'm a Bum in 1956, A True Blue Dodger, California Dreaming, 1959 1989 and Gil, Pee Wee and the Duke, Other Teammates and Characters, The Great Holdout, The Scoreless Streak, The Other Buzzie, My Other Bosses Alston and Mr O'Malley, Was I Mean Well, True Confessions and Good Bye, Life after Baseball, Howard the One and Only, The Game I Love But, Another Title for Dodger Blue, Happier Than Ever, index.
Pictures that are in the book include the following: Drysdale warming up as a rookie in Brooklyn Dodgers camp in 1956, Drysdale with Walter Alson after his first major league game as a starter in 1956, 1956 National League Champion Brooklyn Dodgers team picture, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Sal Maglie, Pee Wee Reese with Miss Gladys Gooding the Ebbets Field Organist, Roommate Gil Hodges, The Reading Rifle Carl Furillo, Duke Snider, Buzzy Bavasi with Walter F O'Malley and Fresco Thompson, Don Newcombe holding Don Drysdale back from a fight with the Milwauee Braves after Drysdale hit him in the back with a pitch in 1957, Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles opening day air view in 1962, Drysdale with Johnny Podres and Sandy Koufax, Drysdale with Joe Becker and Lee Walls and Walter Alston after winning a game, Drysdale dressed as a cowboy in the Lawman, and with some of the cast of the Brady Bunch, Don with Lou Johnson and Wes Parker, Drysdale pitching to Roberto Pena of the Phillies, Drysdale with the scoreboard behind him reading That Breaks the Record 46 1/3 innings Scoreless pitching, with Vin Scully and Ross Porter, with his Wife Annie and Daughter Kelly and sons Donnie Jr and Don, and more . The book is in excellent condition with a tight binding, and no rips, no writing and no creases. The book has the original dust jacket that shows book sold new for 18.95, and this book is like new.
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