Jim Alexander

Dodgers!

An Informal History from Flatbush to Chavez Ravine

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Produktbeschreibung

In the 1880s, a Brooklyn baseball manager plotted to steal pitching signs and alert batters with a hidden electrical wire. In 1951, the Brooklyn Dodgers were robbed of a pennant via a sign-stealing scheme involving a center field office, a telescope and a button connected to the bullpen phone. In 2017, the Los Angeles Dodgers were robbed of a World Series championship via a sign-stealing system involving a TV camera, a monitor, a trash can and a bat. History has often repeated itself around the Dodgers franchise. From their beginnings as the Brooklyn Atlantics to their move from Flatbush to L.A. and into the 21st Century, the Dodgers have seen heartbreaking losses and stirring triumphs, broken the color barrier, turned the game into a true coast-to-coast sport and produced many Hall of Famers, This is their story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 775g
• ISBN-13: 9781476688060
• ISBN-10: 1476688060
• Artikelnr.: 64690057

Autorenporträt

Jim Alexander is a sports columnist for the Southern California News Group, which includes the Los Angeles Daily News and Orange County Register, and has covered sports in Southern California for more than four decades, including the Dodgers as a beat for 12 seasons and frequent columns about them in the years since.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Author's Note xiii Preface Prologue: "Thirty-two years is more than enough"
1.
"The impossible has happened!"
2.
A Team Grows in Brooklyn
3.
From Daffiness to "Wait'll Next Year"
4.
Beginning of the End ... or End of the Beginning
5.
Moon Shots
6.
Welcome to The Ravine...
7.
...Sandy and Big D Will See You Out
8.
The Holdout, the Retirement and the Streak
9.
The Mouth That Roared 10.
Building Toward a Championship-Slowly 11.
Changes 12.
"Next year" 13.
Fernandomania 14.
Out with the Old 15.
Necessities 16.
Master of the House 17.
Confounding the "Experts" 18.
End of an Era 19.
Conflicting Priorities 20.
The Bob Daly Years 21.
Underfunded Frank 22.
K Is for Kershaw 23.
Mannywood 24.
A Fight He Couldn't Win 25.
The New Guys 26.
A Philosophical 180 27.
The Voices 28.
"We wuz robbed" 29.
Home Runs at the Wrong Times 30.
Weirdest. Season. Ever. 31.
The Magic Number: 2.7 32.
Making Themselves at Home ... in Texas Epilogue: 2021 Appendix I: Hall of Famers with Dodgers Ties Appendix II: The Championships Chapter Notes Bibliography Index