Tales from the Los Angeles Dodgers Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Dodgers Stories Ever Told

by Rick Monday, Ken Gurnick (With), Tommy Lasorda (Foreword by)

Overview

It took something truly remarkable to save the 1981 Major League Baseball season from being remembered only as the year of the players’ strike. It took the Los Angeles Dodgers: Fernandomania and Lasorda and Garv and Bake and the Penguin. It took three amazing October comebacks to beat the Houston Astros, the Montreal Expos, and, finally, the New York Yankees, avenging Dodger World Series losses to the Yankees in 1977 and 1978. Rick Monday was right in the middle of that magical 1981 Dodger season. His recollections and conversations with teammates provide a behind-the-scenes view of one of the most amazing teams and seasons in baseball history in the newly revised version of Tales from the Dodgers Dugout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613214329
Publisher:	Sports Publishing LLC
Publication date:	05/01/2013
Series:	Tales from the Team
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Rick Monday, an All-Star center fielder, played in the Major League for nineteen seasons. Monday has been a Dodgers broadcaster for eighteen seasons.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 Damn Yankees 1

Chapter 2 The Names and the Faces 13

Chapter 3 Destination: Dodgertown 57

Chapter 4 Play Ball! 69

Chapter 5 Pardon the Interruption 95

Chapter 6 Back to Work 105

Chapter 7 Western Division Playoffs 115

Chapter 8 League Championship Series 125

Chapter 9 World Series 139

Chapter 10 Party Time 163

Chapter 11 Never Give Up 173

Epilogue 179

Acknowledgments 187