Dodgers Essential Everything You Need to Know to Be a Real Fan
by Travers, StevenFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-04-01
Publisher(s): Triumph Books
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Summary
The Los Angeles Dodgers are one of baseball's most vibrant and beloved franchises, and everything you need to know about them is in Dodgers Essential: the clutch hitters, the dominating pitchers, and the memorable flakes. Looking for a handy reference for milestones in Dodgers history? It's here, as are the greatest moments and biggest disappointments, the biggest goats and the biggest heroes, and all the personalities that make the Dodgers such an endearing and captivating club. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Steven Travers is a USC graduate, former Oakland A's minor league pitcher and sports historian. Author of the bestseller and Casey Aware Nominee Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman, Travers has written numerous sports books and screenplays, in addition to writing for StreetZebra, The (San Francisco) Examiner and the Los Angeles Times. A fifth-generation Californian, Travers resides in the Golden State.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Trolley Dodgers | p. 1 |
| Wilbert Robinson Plants the Seed of a Baseball Tree That Grew in Brooklyn | p. 6 |
| The Lost Season | p. 11 |
| The "Daffiness Boys" | p. 16 |
| A Whole New Ballgame | p. 23 |
| Then the Roof Fell In | p. 27 |
| "He That Will Not Reason Is a Bigot" | p. 33 |
| Mr. Robinson | p. 39 |
| "I Want a Player with the Guts Not to Fight Back!" | p. 45 |
| The Good Samaritan | p. 50 |
| Breaking into the Big Leagues | p. 54 |
| "Wait Till Next Year" | p. 60 |
| The Lords of Flatbush | p. 65 |
| The Creeping Terror | p. 70 |
| "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" | p. 75 |
| Still "Waiting Till Next Year" | p. 80 |
| Finally! | p. 84 |
| Team Leader | p. 89 |
| Exodus | p. 94 |
| Changes | p. 99 |
| A Baseball Palace | p. 104 |
| Summer of '62 | p. 108 |
| New York, New York | p. 113 |
| "Hitless Wonders" | p. 118 |
| The Real "Dr. K" | p. 123 |
| Big D | p. 129 |
| "The Year of the Pitcher" | p. 133 |
| Pride Goeth before the Fall | p. 138 |
| One Year at a Time | p. 144 |
| Rematch | p. 149 |
| Garv | p. 154 |
| Fernandomania | p. 158 |
| The Last Hurrah | p. 163 |
| Piazza | p. 168 |
| The Poet | p. 173 |
| Answers to Trivia Questions | p. 178 |
| Dodgers All-Time Roster | p. 180 |
| Notes | p. 203 |
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