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Fred Claire : My 30 Years in Dodger Blue
by Claire, FredISBN13:
9781582617329
ISBN10:
1582617325
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Hardcover
Pub. Date:
2/1/2004
Publisher(s):
Sports Pub
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Summary
Fred Claire, the former general manager who spent 30 years in the Los Angeles Dodgers front office, offers a look into the inner-workings of one of baseball's most storied franchises.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | vi | ||
| Acknowledgments | viii | ||
| Foreword | ix | ||
| CHAPTER I The End | 1 | (9) | |
| CHAPTER II The Beginning | 10 | (17) | |
| CHAPTER III Blue Heaven | 27 | (18) | |
| CHAPTER IV Walt and Walter | 45 | (16) | |
| CHAPTER V Nightline Without a Lifeline | 61 | (9) | |
| CHAPTER VI Out of a Nightmare, a Dream Job | 70 | (5) | |
| CHAPTER VII My Manager, Tommy | 75 | (8) | |
| CHAPTER VIII Dodger Manager...Joe Morgan? | 83 | (4) | |
| CHAPTER IX Twists and Turns on the Road to Glory | 87 | (11) | |
| CHAPTER X 1988: From Prank to Pinnacle | 98 | (14) | |
| CHAPTER XI Called Strike: Game Out, Replacement Players in | 112 | (9) | |
| CHAPTER XII Anatomy of a Trade | 121 | (8) | |
| CHAPTER XIII Trading Stories: A Mulligan and a Murray | 129 | (6) | |
| CHAPTER XIV Baseball Free Agents... Anything but Free | 135 | (10) | |
| CHAPTER XV The Death and Life of Maury Wills | 145 | (5) | |
| CHAPTER XVI Nothing to Prove, Everything to Live for | 150 | (3) | |
| CHAPTER XVII Lasorda to Russell: A Painful Transition | 153 | (6) | |
| CHAPTER XVIII The Sale to Fox: The O'Malleys Cross the Emotional Barrier | 159 | (8) | |
| CHAPTER XIX Fox Is in, Piazza Is Out | 167 | (9) | |
| CHAPTER XX The Piazza Trade...Out of the Blue | 176 | (9) | |
| CHAPTER XXI My Final Trade | 185 | (7) | |
| CHAPTER XXII See Me-POM | 192 | (6) | |
| CHAPTER XXIII Life Goes on | 198 |
