History has often repeated itself around the Dodgers. From their beginnings as the Brooklyn Atlantics to their move to LA and into the 21st Century, the Dodgers and have seen heartbreaking losses and stirring triumphs, broken the colour barrier, turned the game into a true coast-to-coast sport and produced Hall of Famers, This is their story.

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Author’s Note xiii Preface Prologue: “­Thirty-two years is more than enough”  1. “The impossible has happened!”  2. A Team Grows in Brooklyn  3. From Daffiness to “Wait’ll Next Year”  4. Beginning of the End … or End of the Beginning  5. Moon Shots  6. Welcome to The Ravine…  7. …Sandy and Big D Will See You Out  8. The Holdout, the Retirement and the Streak  9. The Mouth That Roared 10. Building Toward a Championship—Slowly 11. Changes 12. “Next year” 13. Fernandomania 14. Out with the Old 15. Necessities 16. Master of the House 17. Confounding the “Experts” 18. End of an Era 19. Conflicting Priorities 20. The Bob Daly Years 21. Underfunded Frank 22. K Is for Kershaw 23. Mannywood 24. A Fight He Couldn’t Win 25. The New Guys 26. A Philosophical 180 27. The Voices 28. “We wuz robbed” 29. Home Runs at the Wrong Times 30. Weirdest. Season. Ever. 31. The Magic Number: 2.7 32. Making Themselves at Home … in Texas Epilogue: 2021 Appendix I: Hall of Famers with Dodgers Ties Appendix II: The Championships Chapter Notes Bibliography Index