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Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-78 Dodgers

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    Item specifics

    Condition
    Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
    ISBN
    9780803249400
    Book Title
    Dodgerland : Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-78 Dodgers
    Publisher
    University of Nebraska Press
    Item Length
    9.3 in
    Publication Year
    2016
    Format
    Hardcover
    Language
    English
    Item Height
    1.5 in
    Author
    Michael Fallon
    Genre
    Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
    Topic
    United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Baseball / History, Baseball / General, Sociology / Urban
    Item Weight
    29.3 Oz
    Item Width
    6.5 in
    Number of Pages
    472 Pages

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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    University of Nebraska Press
    ISBN-10
    0803249403
    ISBN-13
    9780803249400
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    219143914

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Dodgerland : Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-78 Dodgers
    Number of Pages
    472 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Baseball / History, Baseball / General, Sociology / Urban
    Publication Year
    2016
    Genre
    Sports & Recreation, Social Science, History
    Author
    Michael Fallon
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.5 in
    Item Weight
    29.3 Oz
    Item Length
    9.3 in
    Item Width
    6.5 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2016-002293
    Reviews
    " Dodgerland  is a fine baseball book. Fallon is a talented writer, who is able to effortlessly weave together a number of major storylines in order to make the enormous tapestry that this story is ultimately part of."-- Baseball Historian, " Dodgerland i s a fascinating study of American culture in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Among the characters marching across the pages are Tom Wolfe, Hugh Hefner, Charles Manson, Jim Bouton, Mayor Tom Bradley, Frank Zappa, and, of course, the men who bled Dodger blue, including imperfect heroes such as Steve Garvey, Don Sutton, Reggie Smith, and Glenn Burke. All came for the American Dream. Not all of them made it."--Peter Golenbock, author of The Bronx Zoo and Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers    , "Not a conventional championship-season kind of treatment but a thoughtful, comprehensive, and even deeply personal account of a boisterous era whose echoes remain loud, even painful."-- Kirkus, "This book is recommended not only for baseball fans but also for readers who are interested in social history or who want to learn more about the culture of Los Angeles during that time."-- Guy Who Reviews Sports Books, " Dodgerland i s a fascinating study of American culture in Los Angeles in the 1970s. Among the characters marching across the pages are Tom Wolfe, Hugh Hefner, Charles Manson, Jim Bouton, Mayor Tom Bradley, Frank Zappa, and, of course, the men who bled Dodger blue, including imperfect heroes such as Steve Garvey, Don Sutton, Reggie Smith, and Glenn Burke. All came for the American Dream. Not all of them made it."--Peter Golenbock, author of The Bronx Zoo and Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers, "An intriguing, often audacious tale that weaves in such iconic characters as John Wayne and Bob Marley, Tom Wolfe and Tommy Lasorda. In the eye of this cultural hurricane, for a moment or two, stood the 1977-78 Los Angeles Dodgers. Here is their story--deftly told."--Tim Wendel, author of Castro's Curveball and Summer of '68, "Michael Fallon combines baseball, culture, politics, and social issues into a neat package in  Dodgerland ."--Bob D'Angelo, Sports Bookie
    Dewey Edition
    23
    Dewey Decimal
    796.357
    Table Of Content
    Prologue: Tuesday, October 17, 1978 Part 1. 1977 1. The Days of Bad Baseball 2. Where It Will Always Be 1955 3. Detours along the Dodger Way 4. Great Expectations, Everybody's Watching You 5. The Land of Golden Dreams 6. We Were All Rookies Again 7. The Game Has Gotten Worse 8. But You Can Never Leave 9. Hollywood Stars and Blue Hard Hats 10. A John Wayne Kind of Adventure 11. Heroes and Villains 12. Dog Days in Dogtown 13. The Right Stuff 14. Gonna Fly Now 15. Klieg Lights, Smoke Bombs, and Three Massive Bombshells Interlude: Postorbital Remorse; or, There's Always Next Year Part 2. 1978 16. Rediscovering Baseball 17. Paradise Defiled 18. The Redemption of Rick Monday 19. Every Day We Pay the Price 20. The Ballad of Glenn and Spunky 21. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love 22. Untaxing the Golden Cow 23. Nothing Is Clicking Right Now 24. The Grapple in the Apple 25. Is the Force with Us? 26. Clinching 27. The Inevitable Yankee Miracle 28. Chronic Hysteresis; or, Another Yankees-Dodgers Rematch Afterword: Leaving Babylon Notes Index
    Synopsis
    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., 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. Dodgerlandis 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.
    LC Classification Number
    GV875.L6F35 2016

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