Baseball's 2007 media: Part III

Continuing our reviews of what's new in baseball media:

The book: "Dodgers Essential: Everything You Need to Know to be a Real Fan!" by Steve Travers (Triumph, 205 pages, $19.95)

The windup: History, facts, pictures, stories, trivia on the history of the Dodgers.

The pitch: Take the entry we did on "101 Reasons To Love The Dodgers" and add more pages of research. By the way, have we told you how we really felt about Travers' books -- which aren't so much literary pieces of work but extended Google searches and Nexus scans from newspapers and previously written books and simply repackaged them. Travers also has knocked out the "Angels Essential," "A's Essential," and "Diamondbacks Essential" this spring, so essentially, he's spraying to all fields. And considering he likes to write reviews all over Amazon.com for other books, don't be surprised if some are done on his link there that make this the "can't miss book of the season!" Complete with the exclamation point.