Автор: Nusbaum Eric Название: Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between ISBN: 1541742214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781541742215 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 38250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city. Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy. Instead of getting their homes back, the remaining residents saw the city sell their land to Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now LA would be getting a different sort of utopian fantasy -- a glittering, ultra-modern stadium. But before Dodger Stadium could be built, the city would have to face down the neighborhood's families -- including one, the Ar chigas, who refused to yield their home. The ensuing confrontation captivated the nation - and the divisive outcome still echoes through Los Angeles today.
Автор: Knight Molly Название: The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers` Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse ISBN: 147677630X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476776309 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 13030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With a new Afterword covering the 2015 season. The bestselling, inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball. It s as if Molly Knight ushers you behind the closed clubhouse doors. (Buster Olney, ESPN) In 2012 the Los Angeles Dodgers were bought out of bankruptcy in the most expensive sale in sports history. Los Angeles icon Magic Johnson and his partners hoped to put together a team worthy of Hollywood: consistently entertaining. By most accounts they have succeeded, if not always in the way they might have imagined. In "The Best Team Money Can Buy," Molly Knight tells the story of the Dodgers 2013 and 2014 seasons with detailed, previously unreported revelations. She shares a behind-the-scenes account of the astonishing sale of the Dodgers, as well as what the Dodgers actually knew in advance about rookie phenom and Cuban defector Yasiel Puig. We learn how close manager Don Mattingly was to losing his job during the 2013 season and how the team turned around the season in the most remarkable fifty-game stretch of any team since World War II. Knight also provides a rare glimpse into the in-fighting and mistrust that derailed the team in 2014 and paints an intimate portrait of star pitcher Clayton Kershaw, including details about the record contract offer he turned down before accepting the richest contract any pitcher ever signed. Exciting, surprising, and filled with juicy details, a must-read for fans of the Dodgers and all Los Angeles sports teams .Knight s undercover work is like none other ("Library Journal"). "The Best Team Money Can Buy" is filled with fascinating perspectives ("Los Angeles Times") and interesting anecdotes about some of baseball s most compelling figures ("The Sacramento Bee")."
Автор: Schiavone Michael Название: The Dodgers: 60 Years in Los Angeles ISBN: 168358371X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781683583714 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15630.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
From an award-winning sportswriter comes the riveting odyssey of six Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s a chronicle of a team, a game, and a nation in transition during one of the most exciting and unsettled decades in history.
Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s America: white and black, Jewish and Christian, wealthy and working class, pro-Vietnam and anti-war, golden boy and seasoned veteran. The Last Innocents is a thoughtful, technicolor portrait of these six players friends, mentors, confidants, rivals, and allies and their storied team that offers an intriguing look at a sport and a nation in transition. Bringing into focus the high drama of their World Series appearances from 1962 to 1972 and their pivotal games, Michael Leahy explores these men s interpersonal relationships and illuminates the triumphs, agonies, and challenges each faced individually.
Leahy places these men s lives within the political and social maelstrom that was the era when the conformity of the 1950s gave way to demands for equality and rights. Increasingly frustrated over a lack of real bargaining power and an oppressive management who meddled in their personal affairs, the players shared an uneasy relationship with the team s front office. This contention mirrored the discord and uncertainty generated by myriad changes rocking the nation: the civil rights movement, political assassinations, and growing hostility to the escalation of the Vietnam War. While the nation around them changed, these players each experienced a personal and professional metamorphosis that would alter public perceptions and their own.
Comprehensive and artfully crafted, The Last Innocents is an evocative and riveting portrait of a pivotal era in baseball and modern America."
Автор: Whiting Jim Название: Los Angeles Dodgers ISBN: 1640263071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640263079 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 49250.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Michael Fallon Название: Dodgerland: Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977A–78 Dodgers ISBN: 0803249403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803249400 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29220.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
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.
Автор: Whiting Jim Название: Los Angeles Dodgers ISBN: 1628328398 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628328394 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 8350.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Encompassing the extraordinary history of Major League Baseball''s Los Angeles Dodgers, this photo-laden narrative underscores significant players, team accomplishments, and noteworthy moments that will stand out in young sports fans'' minds.Encompassing the extraordinary history of Major League Baseball''s Miami Marlins, this photo-laden narrative underscores significant players, team accomplishments, and noteworthy moments that will stand out in young sports fans'' minds.
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