03125cam a2200313 4500 529614850 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781328715579 1328715574 B07FK9NRQ2 Amazon c829efac-05a2-4e68-aa52-32001583835a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4187650 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Turbow, Jason. They Bled Blue [Libby] : Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers. HMH Books, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 21MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Sports & Recreations. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>The wildly entertaining narrative of the outrageous 1981 Dodgers from the award-winning author of <i>Dynastic, Fantastic, Bombastic</i> and <i>The Baseball Codes</i></b></p> <p><i>They Bled Blue</i> is the rollicking yarn of the Los Angeles Dodgers' crazy 1981 season. That it culminated in an unlikely World Series win—during a campaign split by the longest player strike in baseball history—is not even the most interesting thing about this team. The Dodgers were led by the garrulous Tommy Lasorda—part manager, part cheerleader—who unyieldingly proclaimed devotion to the franchise through monologues about bleeding Dodger blue and worshiping the "Big Dodger in the Sky," and whose office hosted a regular stream of Hollywood celebrities. Steve Garvey, the All-American, All-Star first baseman, had anchored the most durable infield in major league history, and, along with Davey Lopes, Bill Russell, and Ron Cey, was glaringly aware that 1981 would represent the end of their run together. The season's real story, however, was one that nobody expected at the outset: a chubby lefthander nearly straight out of Mexico, twenty years old with a wild delivery and a screwball as his flippin' out pitch. The Dodgers had been trying for decades to find a Hispanic star to activate the local Mexican population; Fernando Valenzuela was the first to succeed, and it didn't take long for Fernandomania to sweep far beyond the boundaries of Chavez Ravine.<br /> In the Halberstam tradition of capturing a season through its unforgettable figures, <i>They Bled Blue</i> is a sprawling, mad tale of excess and exuberance, the likes of which could only have occurred in that place, at that time.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c829efac-05a2-4e68-aa52-32001583835a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c829efac-05a2-4e68-aa52-32001583835a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c829efac-05a2-4e68-aa52-32001583835a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)