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Highlights players, managers, and memorable games in this history of the baseball team which began in Brooklyn in 1890 and moved to the West Coast in 1958.

Tommy Lasorda is perhaps baseball's most famous and popular figure. At 79, after 20 years of managing and 57 years with one franchise, this Hall of Famer still suits up in Dodger Blue every day. He also keeps a travel schedule that would dizzy the most frequent fliers. Lasorda went from a scrawny, overlooked Italian kid of average ability to become one of the world's most recognizable baseball faces--and he fought for it every step of the way. Plaschke...

Traces the history of the Los Agneles Dodgers, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, quotes, anecdotes, and a glossary.

"The inside story of how the Dodgers won their first championship in more than thirty years -- but helped cripple the sport of baseball in the process." -- Book jacket flap. "The inside story of how the Dodgers won their first championship in more than thirty years--but helped cripple the sport of baseball in the process. After years of frustrating playoff runs, the Los Angeles Dodgers finally reclaimed the World Series trophy after more than thirty...

On cover: My life in baseball from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

"The wildly entertaining narrative of the outrageous 1981 Dodgers from the award-winning author of Dynastic, Fantastic, Bombastic and The Baseball Codes"--