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Rick Monday's Tales from the Dodgers Dugout

Rick Monday's Tales from the Dodgers Dugout( )
Author: Monday, Rick
Foreword by: Lasorda, Tommy
ISBN:978-1-58261-975-0
Publication Date:Mar 2006
Publisher:Sports Publishing, LLC
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

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 ?Sorda 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 Dodger...
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Book Details
Pages:179
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.02 x 8.48 x 0.71 Inches
Book Weight:0.83 Pounds
Author Biography
Monday, Rick (Author)
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.

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