Dodgers!: An Informal History from Flatbush to Chavez Ravine

by Jim Alexander

In the 1880s, a Brooklyn baseball manager plotted to steal pitching signs and alert batters with a hidden electrical wire. In 1951, the Brooklyn Dodgers were robbed of a pennant via a sign-stealing scheme involving a center field office, a telescope and a button connected to the bullpen phone. In 2017, the Los Angeles Dodgers were robbed of a World Series championship via a sign-stealing system involving a TV camera, a monitor, a trash can and a bat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476688060
• ISBN13: 9781476688060
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.9"