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

Rick Monday

maj 2013 · Solgt af Simon and Schuster

Om denne e-bog

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.

Om forfatteren

Rick Monday, an All-Star center fielder, played in the Major League for nineteen seasons. Monday has been a Dodgers broadcaster for eighteen seasons. Thomas Charles Lasorda was born on September 22, 1927 in Norristown, Pa. He was an American baseball pitcher and manager. He pitched for various teams, including the Brooklyn Dodgers. But he was best known as the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He spent most of 21 seasons with them. He helped them win four National League pennants and two World Series championships. After managing them, he became senior adviser to the team president. Lasorda also coached the United States baseball team that won the gold medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He was known for his optimism and storytelling. In 1997, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Outside of baseball he made television commercials for the diet supplement Ultra SlimFast, 1989-1995. He and co-author David Fisher wrote The Artful Dodger (1985). He was a contributor to the book, I Live for This: Baseball's Last True Believer (2007). Tommy Lasorda died in Fullerton, California on January 7, 2021. He was 93.