Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Author's Note xiii
Preface 1
Prologue: "Thirty-two years is more than enough" 3
1 "The impossible has happened!" 7
2 A Team Grows in Brooklyn 17
3 From Daffiness to "Wait'll Next Year" 28
4 Beginning of the End … or End of the Beginning 43
5 Moon Shots 54
6 Welcome to The Ravine… 68
7 …Sandy and Big D Will See You Out 76
8 The Holdout, the Retirement and the Streak 87
9 The Mouth That Roared 97
10 Building Toward a Championship-Slowly 110
11 Changes 122
12 "Next year" 135
13 Fernandomania 144
14 Out with the Old 148
15 Necessities 157
16 Master of the House 164
17 Confounding the "Experts" 173
18 End of an Era 182
19 Conflicting Priorities 193
20 The Bob Daly Years 204
21 Underfunded Frank 218
22 K Is for Kershaw 229
23 Mannywood 239
24 A Fight He Couldn't Win 247
25 The New Guys 258
26 A Philosophical 180 270
27 The Voices 284
28 "We wuz robbed" 292
29 Home Runs at the Wrong Times 305
30 Weirdest. Season. Ever. 322
31 The Magic Number: 2.7 330
32 Making Themselves at Home … in Texas 339
Epilogue: 2021 352
Appendix I Hall of Earners with Dodgers Ties 361
Appendix II The Championships 364
Chapter Notes 369
Bibliography 385
Index 387
