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Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue : baseball's greatest forgotten rivalry / Tom Van Riper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Riper, Tom, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team).
- Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team).
- Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team)--History.
- Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team)--History.
- Sports rivalries--United States--History.
- Sports rivalries.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
- Summary:
- Call it the forgotten rivalry.The Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers may not share geographical boundaries, and today they don't even play in the same division, but for a period of time in the 1970s Dodgers vs.Reds was the best rivalry in Major League Baseball.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- The Right Matchup at the Right Time
- The Pariah
- Making Draft History and Medical History
- Building the Machine
- It Begins
- The Three Kings
- Greatness Recognized and Greatness Snubbed
- Monsters of the Mound
- Packing Them In
- Four Infielders and a Scapegoat
- Showdown
- How Great Were They?
- Sparking an Evolution
- Late Bloomer
- They Shall Be Free
- A Giant Loss
- Grinding Toward the Wire
- The Winners
- Frustration
- Onward
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8183-418-0
- OCLC:
- 968151950
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