RON FAIRLYAfter a 20-year career as a Major League player, including two All-Star Game selections and as a member of three World Series champion teams, Ron Fairly knows baseball. He also knows how to tell entertaining stories about it, from the perspective of player and also from 27 years as a radio and television broadcaster. Fairly at Bat is his first book, written in collaboration with best-selling sports journalist Steve Springer. A standout player at the University of Southern California, Fairly was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1958 and played with his home team for more than a decade, during which the Dodgers won four pennants and three World Series titles in 1959, 1963 and 1965. Fairly's stories from those days draw on a cast of characters and big-name stars such as Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Duke Snider. The book also has a Foreword written by veteran Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda. Besides the Dodgers, Fairly played for Montreal, St. Louis, Oakland, Toronto and the California Angels, retiring in 1968 with a .268 career batting average, 215 home runs and 1,044 runs batted in. He turned to broadcasting in 1979 and called games on radio for the Angels, San Francisco Giants and Seattle Mariners over the next 27 seasons. He was named to the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997. Read More Read Less