Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers

by Erik Sherman

Finalist for the 2023 CASEY Award
Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest

Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day starting pitcher in 1981. Born in the remote Mexican town of Etchohuaquila, the left-hander had moved to the United States less than two years before. He became an instant icon, and his superlative rookie season produced Cy Young and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496231015
• ISBN13: 9781496231017
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"