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"City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles" by Jerald Podair

Three of the Valley’s four pro sports teams are potentially looking for new places to play. And, a new book could give some insight into how that process may play out.

Jerald Podair writes about Walter O’Malley’s private financing of a stadium in LA in his new book "City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles."

Podair is a professor of history and American studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and he joins me.