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The 1977-78 Los Angeles Dodgers came close. Their tough lineup of young and ambitious players squared off with the New York Yankees in consecutive World Series. The Dodgers' run was a long time in the making after years of struggle and featured many homegrown players who went on to noteworthy or Hall of Fame careers, including Don Sutton, Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, and Steve Yeager. Dodgerland is the story of those memorable teams as Chavez Ravine began to change, baseball was about to enter a new era, and American culture experienced a shift to the "me" era.
Part journalism, part social history, and part straight sportswriting, Dodgerland is told through the lives of four men, each representing different aspects of this L.A. story. Tom Lasorda, the vocal manager of the Dodgers, gives an up-close view of the team's struggles and triumphs; Tom Fallon, a suburban small-business owner, witnesses the Dodgers' season and the changes to California's landscape-physical, social, political, and economic; Tom Wolfe, a chronicler of California's ever-changing culture, views the events of 1977-78 from his Manhattan writer's loft; and Tom Bradley, Los Angeles's mayor and the region's most dominant political figure of the time, gives a glimpse of the wider political, demographic, and economic forces that affected the state at the time.
The boys in blue drew baseball's focus in those two seasons, but the intertwining narratives tell a larger story about California, late 1970s America, and great promise unrealized.
Contents
Prologue: Tuesday, October 17, 1978 Part 1. 19771. The Days of Bad Baseball2. Where It Will Always Be 19553. Detours along the Dodger Way4. Great Expectations, Everybody's Watching You5. The Land of Golden Dreams6. We Were All Rookies Again7. The Game Has Gotten Worse8. But You Can Never Leave9. Hollywood Stars and Blue Hard Hats10. A John Wayne Kind of Adventure11. Heroes and Villains12. Dog Days in Dogtown13. The Right Stuff14. Gonna Fly Now15. Klieg Lights, Smoke Bombs, and Three Massive Bombshells Interlude: Postorbital Remorse; or, There's Always Next Year Part 2. 197816. Rediscovering Baseball17. Paradise Defiled18. The Redemption of Rick Monday19. Every Day We Pay the Price20. The Ballad of Glenn and Spunky21. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love22. Untaxing the Golden Cow23. Nothing Is Clicking Right Now24. The Grapple in the Apple25. Is the Force with Us?26. Clinching27. The Inevitable Yankee Miracle28. Chronic Hysteresis; or, Another Yankees-Dodgers Rematch Afterword: Leaving Babylon NotesIndex
