02870nam 2200553 450 991079839380332120230126214342.00-8032-8833-60-8032-8831-X(CKB)3710000000644442(EBL)4505145(SSID)ssj0001652484(PQKBManifestationID)16427073(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001652484(PQKBWorkID)14888812(PQKB)11746162(MiAaPQ)EBC4505145(DLC) 2016004109(Au-PeEL)EBL4505145(CaPaEBR)ebr11207209(CaONFJC)MIL914162(OCoLC)950462057(EXLCZ)99371000000064444220160524h20162016 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDodgerland decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-78 Dodgers /Michael FallonLincoln, [Illinois] ;London, [England] :University of Nebraska Press,2016.©20161 online resource (469 p.)Includes index.0-8032-4940-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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"Chronicles two memorable seasons of the late 70s Los Angeles Dodgers and a transformative, multilayered tale of LA in a time of promise unrealized and great potential squandered"--Provided by publisher.Los Angeles (Calif.)Social conditions20th century796.357/64097949409047SPO003030HIS036140bisacshFallon Michael1489892MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798393803321Dodgerland3710800UNINA