Bums No More: The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers, World Champions of Baseball
This is the story of the 1959 Dodgers, a team that rose above its disastrous first season on the West Coast for an out-of-nowhere World Series title. One of baseball's greatest underdog champions, the '59 Dodgers were a rag-tag team made of long shots salvaged from the minor leagues and over-the-hill ballplayers who reached back for one final triumph. After surviving a thrilling three team pennant race, they met fellow long shots the Chicago White Sox in an underdog World Series. Here, the team's story is recounted in detail, with game-by-game highlights, and set against the cultural backdrop of the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and the rock and roll cultural revolution.

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Bums No More: The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers, World Champions of Baseball
This is the story of the 1959 Dodgers, a team that rose above its disastrous first season on the West Coast for an out-of-nowhere World Series title. One of baseball's greatest underdog champions, the '59 Dodgers were a rag-tag team made of long shots salvaged from the minor leagues and over-the-hill ballplayers who reached back for one final triumph. After surviving a thrilling three team pennant race, they met fellow long shots the Chicago White Sox in an underdog World Series. Here, the team's story is recounted in detail, with game-by-game highlights, and set against the cultural backdrop of the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and the rock and roll cultural revolution.

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Bums No More: The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers, World Champions of Baseball

Bums No More: The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers, World Champions of Baseball

by Brian M. Endsley
Bums No More: The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers, World Champions of Baseball

Bums No More: The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers, World Champions of Baseball

by Brian M. Endsley

Overview

This is the story of the 1959 Dodgers, a team that rose above its disastrous first season on the West Coast for an out-of-nowhere World Series title. One of baseball's greatest underdog champions, the '59 Dodgers were a rag-tag team made of long shots salvaged from the minor leagues and over-the-hill ballplayers who reached back for one final triumph. After surviving a thrilling three team pennant race, they met fellow long shots the Chicago White Sox in an underdog World Series. Here, the team's story is recounted in detail, with game-by-game highlights, and set against the cultural backdrop of the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and the rock and roll cultural revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786439195
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 11/03/2009
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Attorney Brian M. Endsley lives in Antioch, California.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     
Introduction     
Prologue: Los Angeles, September 29, 1959, 5:05 P.M.     

PART I. Descent: From Brooklyn Legends to L.A. Has-Beens
1. 1955: The View from the Top of the World     
2. 1956: Bridesmaids Revisited     
3. 1957: The Year the Brooklyn Dodgers Died     
4. “A Freak Ball Park”     
5. The Dodgers Lose Campy     
6. The 1958 Los Angeles Dodgers: Something Old, Something New     
7. Major League Baseball Comes to California     
8. May 1958: Welcome to the Cellar     
9. Chavez Ravine: The Big Distraction     
10. The Long Summer of ’58     
11. September 1958: A Lost Season Comes to an End     
12. Whither the Milwaukee Dynasty?     

PART II. Ascent: From Seventh Place to World Champions
13. Restless Winter     
14. A Voice in the Wilderness     
15. Spring Roller Coaster: April in First, May in Despair     
16. The Summer of ’59: Bavasi’s Miracle     
17. September 1959: A Pennant Race for the Ages     
18. We Go to Chicago!     
19. The Go-Go Sox     
20. The Underdog Series     
21. An Analysis of the 1959 World Series     
22. 1959: A Year of Transition     
23. Turning the Page to the Sixties     

Epilogue: 50 Years On     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index     
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