Full Description
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.
Contents
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
