For nearly sixty years, Bud Furillo wrote and talked about sports in Southern California. As a reporter, columnist, editor, and pioneer of sports talk radio, the Steamer dished out insight and understanding to Southern California sports fans while Los Angeles grew into a sports empire. Here, Furillo's son, Andy, himself a longtime newspaperman, uses his father's lens to give focus to the city's rise as a sports empire. THE STEAMER is a history of a great sports town at its most dynamic, told from the point of view of a legendary reporter.