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“He was lost”: Sports Illustrated, April 12, 1982.
“It’s a feeling I’ve had for, gosh, a couple of years now”: Playboy, June 1981.
“Garvey is the same everywhere”: Orange County Register, September 30, 1981.
“the real backbone of this country”: Saturday Evening Post, July/August 1980.
“That behavior—the kindness, the responsiveness”: Garvey and Rozin, Garvey.
“Garvey was very careful in what he said”: Mark Heisler interview.
“Garvey’s image was real”: Chris Mortensen interview.
“Practicing being an All-American”: Cynthia Garvey and Andy Meisler, The Secret Life of Cyndy Garvey (New York: Doubleday, 1989).
“with his boyish brush cut”: Sport, April 1976.
“If Steve Garvey ever grew out of his Dodger uniform”: San Bernardino County Sun, June 15, 1975.
“jealousy”: The Sporting News, September 9, 1978.
“His idea of a risqué joke is right out of Tampa, 1956”: Sports Illustrated, April 12, 1982.
“I was a perennial vice president”: Playboy, June 1981.
“Sometimes you feel they get caught up”: Orange Coast Magazine, April 1984.
“How, indeed, could a wide-eyed youngster”: Saturday Evening Post, July/August 1980.
“basically everyone knows he’s a public-relations man”: Sports Illustrated, April 12, 1982.
“It was really a hallmark of that team”: Mark Heisler interview.
“He knows he’s not really understood enough”: Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1978.
“the more exposure you get”: Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1980.
“He wants to be one of the guys”: Ibid.
“Boy Scout speech on unity”: Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1980.
“Steve didn’t have any malice in him”: Peter Schmuck interview.
“The Isolation of Steve Garvey, Mr. Clean”: Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1978.
“The number one question is, ‘Is he for real?”: Sports Illustrated, April 12, 1982.
“The reason I’m doing the Playboy interview”: Playboy, June 1981.
“I’ve known Steve Garvey since 1968”: Arizona Republic, October 27, 1981.
“All you ever hear on our team is Steve Garvey”: Washington Post, August 16, 1978.
“I’m human”: The Sporting News, September 9, 1978.
“self-control is the biggest thing I have going for me”: San Bernardino County Sun, June 15, 1975.
“the tone in which it came out”: The Sporting News, September 9, 1978.
“no longer married to a wonderful wife and mother”: Boston Globe, October 31, 1981.
“scruffy-looking, dog-eating guys”: Steve Yeager interview.
“Yeager has started against lefthanders all year”: Sahadi, The LA Dodgers.
If I get Murcer out: Burt Hooton interview.
I agree with you, Tommy: Ibid.
“I would not be able to live with it”: Ron Cey interview.
“Tommy, you don’t need a pinch-hitter”: Paul Padilla interview.
“Ask Steve Howe if I can still hit a fastball”: Howe and Greenfield, Between the Lines.
“That’s a fastball”: Ibid.
“You really didn’t want to make the last out”: Garvey and Rozin, Garvey.
“Well, Garv, it’s your turn”: Ibid.
“All I could think about”: Ken Landreaux interview.
“You gotta believe!”: Garvey and Rozin, Garvey.
“I’ve got the ring”: Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1981.
“the end of a very sentimental journey”: New York Times, October 30, 1981.
“It was a silent feeling”: Sports Illustrated, November 9, 1981.
“I’m jumping up and down inside”: Ron Cey interview.
“If I pass out, there are lots of doctors nearby”: Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1981.
“We ought to get one of these in LA”: Washington Post, October 27, 1981.
“We all know about death”: Washington Post, October 30, 1981.
“Food fight!”: Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1981.
“It wasn’t that tasty either”: Dave Goltz interview.
“It became like Animal House”: Mike Scioscia interview.
“I thought I’d apologized for my sins”: Sports Illustrated, November 9, 1981.
“It was the best food fight in the history of baseball”: Jerry Reuss interview.
“A baptism of accomplishment”: Steve Garvey interview.
“It’s amazing the colors that you can get”: Rick Monday interview.
“I’m glad [the award] didn’t come posthumously”: Washington Post, October 30, 1981.
“I definitely didn’t agree with the move”: Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1981.
“If we would have had our normal offense”: Steve Garvey interview.
“I’m not blowing my own horn”: Toronto Globe and Mail, October 29, 1981.
“I just want to put my head down on the pillow”: New York Times, October 29, 1981.
12. Aftermath
“I swear, within an hour almost everybody was asleep”: Jerry Reuss interview.
“We were worn out, physically and mentally”: Rick Monday interview.
“It’s pretty amazing”: Steve Garvey interview.
“special popularity”: La Opinion, cited in Los Angeles Times, November 8, 1981.
“I did not know I would hurt people that much”: Newsday, November 4, 1981.
“Turns out that Yeag can sing a little bit”: Rick Monday interview.
“There were some notes”: Ibid.
“So you guys are actually going to go out and do this thing?”: Ibid.
“What’s your pucker factor?”: Reuss, Bring in the Right-Hander.
“I’m the singer of the group”: Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1981.
“I always thought that I was going to be the first one traded”: Ron Cey interview.
“It was almost as if management”: Mark Heisler interview.
“Garvey is to the Dodgers”: Sports Illustrated, November 9, 1981.
“My baseball life started at Al Lang Field”: Steve Garvey interview.
“The Dodgers think they’re living in Camelot”: Sports Illustrated, April 25, 1983.
“I was just sad on how it ended”: Dusty Baker interview.
“Probably four or five years sooner than they had to”: Delsohn, True Blue.
“I could never figure it out”: Ibid.
“We have been treated like children”: Sports Illustrated, April 5, 1982.
“Obviously, someone was angry at Dusty”: Garvey and Rozin, Garvey.
“The Dodger image”: Howe and Greenfield, Between the Lines.
“I was a good friend of Bob Welch”: The Sporting News, March 5, 1984.
“They can make you uncomfortable”: Ron Cey interview.
“Once I told Mr. O’Malley I hoped to continue working”: Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1978.
Conclusion
I don’t want players who are pussycats: Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1977.
“Tommy, come here!”: Grantland, April 5, 2013.
“I’m trying to manage a game, kid”: Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2017.
“Gibby says he can hit”: Sports Illustrated, October 15, 2013.
“Mitch, this could be the script”: Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2017.
“Hit Davis eighth”: Sports Illustrated, October 15, 2013.
“I’ve never heard anything like that”: Grantland, April 5, 2013.
“Someone should shoot this animal”: Sports Illustrated, October 15, 2013.
“The Dodgers are a very generous organization”: Sports Illustrated, April 25, 1983.
“The Dodgers had a peculiar idea”: Mark Heisler interview.
“All I can say is that Buckner was Lasorda’s son”: The Sporting News, June 25, 1977.
“There’s no magic to a team”: Rick Monday interview.
“We had very big egos at every position”: Burt Hooton interview.
“Reggie Smith was a strong force in our clubhouse”: Dave Stewart interview.
“Get off the mound”: MLB.com, December 21, 2014.
“The only thing you did wrong out there today”: Ibid.
“Anybody who ever thinks Tommy isn’t real”: Paul Padilla interview.
“I don’t think he’d ever admit it”: Steve Yeager interview.
“Tommy exemplifies what the Dodgers are about”: Dave Stewart interview.
“In everything that he did”: Peter Schmuck interview.
“Boomer, this is a democratic society”: Steve Yeager interview.
“When I came to the organization”: Ron Cey interview.
“It was good that [Cey and Garvey] were on the opposite ends of the infield”: Dave Goltz interview.
“I think Steve Garvey is synonymous with the Dodgers”: Playboy, June 1981.
“Buckner never talks in the mornings anyhow”: Johnstone and Talley, Temporary Insanity.
Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
“n” in page numbers indicates a footnote
A
Aaron, Hank, 102, 154, 229
Adams, Red, 14, 53n, 188
Alcaraz, Luis, 22n
Alexander, Doyle, 8n, 24
Alexander, Robert, 73
Allen, Dick, 22n
Allen, George, 12n
Allenson, Gary, 100
All-Star Game (1934–1980), x, 26n, 31, 67, 206–7
All-Star Game (1981), 110, 138, 140–43, 273, 305n
All-Star Game (1989–1990), 323
Alston, Walter, 10–14, 16, 24–26, 35, 127, 229
Altobelli, Joe, 300n
Amalfitano, Joey, 322
Amoros, Sandy, 215
Anaheim Angels, 48, 91, 324
Arechiga family, 75n
Argyros, George, 112
Ashby, Alan, 179, 189
Aspromonte, Bob, 22n
Atlanta Braves, 28, 68, 92, 150, 151n, 170, 227
Autry, Gene, 98
Avella, Jaime and Vicente, 63–64
Avila, Bobby, 250n
B
Bachman, Randy, 104n
Bailey, Bob, 22n
Bailor, Bob, 81
Baker, Christine, 226–27
Baker, John, Sr., 133, 225–28, 230–31
Baker, Johnnie B. “Dusty”
1972–1980 seasons, 31–33, 102, 229–30, 232
1981 All-Star Game, 141, 142, 143
1981 season, 55, 151–52, 156–57, 159–60, 174, 180–81, 191–93, 195, 203, 211–14, 223–24, 326
1981 strike, 97, 101, 102, 117
1981 World Series aftermath, 313, 325
1981 World Series games, 231, 240–41, 245, 247, 256, 260, 264–66, 272, 277, 294–95, 298, 300
attacked by Expos fans, 224–25
background, 212, 225–28
Carlton (Carl) and, 200
on drug use by players, 132–33, 137
“Dusty” nickname, 225
Garvey and, 285, 291
Howe and, 135–36, 315
injuries, 15, 225, 228–31, 256
on John, 242
Lasorda and, 15, 228n, 229
leadership, 212, 230
managerial career, 32n, 329
on Monday, 223–24
Padilla and, 97
personality, 228, 230
race relations, 226, 227–28
Rickles and, 130n
rumors about, 314–15
Smith (Reggie) and, 47–48, 154, 161–62
Stewart and, 179
Strong and, 132–33
Sutcliffe and, 173
traded to Dodgers, 24n, 228
Valenzuela and, 55, 79
Welch and, 315
on Yeager, 235n
Baker, Victor, 226
Bando, Sal, 87
Barnett, Larry, 241
Basgall, Monty, 20–21, 247
Bavasi, Buzzie, 3, 4n, 5, 10, 17, 108n
Baxes, Jim, 22n
Baylor, Don, 87
Bean, Bill, 123
Beckwith, Joe, 36n, 45
Belushi, John, 77, 122, 304
Bench, Johnny, 177
Bergesch, Bill, 279
Berra, Yogi, 238n, 255n
Bibby, Jim, 155
Blair, Paul, xii Blue, Vida, 54, 90
Boone, Bob, 112
Boston Red Sox, 36n, 41, 78–79, 151–53
Boswell, Thomas, 8
Bowa, Larry, 44n
Bowron, Fletcher, 72, 73–74
Boyer, Ken, 22n
Bradley, Mark, 167
Brayton, Chuck, 23
Brecheen, Harry, 3n
Breeding, Marv, 22n
Brener, Steve, 47, 288, 305
Brett, George, 147, 262
Brett, Ken, 28
Brinkman, Joe, xi Brito, Maria, 83
Brito, Mike, 15, 60–66, 82n, 83, 94n, 107–9
Brock, Lou, 197
Brooklyn Dodgers, 2–4, 44, 74–75, 194n, 238n, 245. See also Los Angeles Dodgers
Brown, Bobby, 265–66
Brulotte, Rodger, 215–16
Bryant, Clay, 1–2
Buckner, Bill, 8n, 18, 23, 24n, 26n, 45, 220, 324n, 331
Buhler, Bill, 151, 228–29, 235n, 277
Burgos, Linda, 83
Burke, Glenn, 123, 229n
Burris, Ray, 200–202, 215–17
Busch, August, 207
Bush, George H. W., 94
Buss, Jerry, 130
C
Cabell, Enos, 183–84, 333–34
Cabrera, Lorenzo, 3
California Angels, 48, 91, 324
Cambria, Joe, 60
Campanella, Roy, 235, 327
Campaneris, Bert, 87
Campanis, Al
1980 season, 33
1981 season, 45, 49, 97, 103, 108–9, 147–49, 303, 313
Brito and, 61, 63, 65
Burke and, 123n
on “coconut snatching,” 18
Giants rivalry, 163–64
Guerrero-Ellingsen trade, 273
Johnstone’s pranks, 262n
Lasorda and, 1, 5, 7
philosophy, 318
racism, 136
Smith (Reggie) and, 36n, 154
Valenzuela and, 56, 63–65, 77
on wave of young players, 167–68
Campanis, Jim, 104n
Candelaria, John, 155
Canseco, José, 319, 322
Carbo, Bernie, 153
Carew, Rod, 45, 90, 142
Carey, Andy, 22n
Carlton, Carl, 200
Carlton, Steve, 141n
Carradine, David, 104
Carson, Johnny, 310
Carter, Gary
1981 season, 80, 142, 196, 197, 201–2, 206n, 209, 213, 222
1991 season, 323
Carter, Jimmy, 125n
Castillo, Bobby “Babo”
1981 season, 82, 103, 105–6, 107n, 148, 173, 239, 258
background, 61, 65n, 77, 152n
Howe and, 135–36
screwball, 61, 65–67, 69
Cedeño, César, 179, 180, 181
Cepeda, Orlando, 102
Cerone, Rick, 243, 248–50, 258, 260, 264, 270, 277, 296, 300n
Cey, Fran, 277, 278
Cey, Ron
1968–1980 seasons, xii, 22, 23, 31, 229, 326
1981 season, 43–44, 84n, 139, 158–59, 168, 170, 174, 185, 198–99, 205, 213, 217, 221, 325–26
1981 strike, 101–2, 104–5
1981 World Series aftermath, 233, 303, 310n, 311, 313
1981 World Series games, 239, 243, 247, 249, 251–54, 258–59, 276–78, 281–83, 295, 298–99, 303
1981 World Series MVP Award, 305
batting helmet, 276, 281, 282
career statistics, 27
cohesive play, 330
on Dodgers blackballing of players, 315
on Dodger Stadium infield dirt, 265
on Garvey, 288–89
injuries, 158–59, 170, 276–78, 281, 299, 303n
on Lasorda, 330
on Lopes’s trade to Oakland A’s, 310n
minor league career, 8–9, 22
on Monday, 221 “Penguin” nickname, 23
personality, 24, 27, 331
positions played, 22–24
as singer, 104n
traded to Cubs, 311
Chavez Ravine, 71–76, 126n
Chesbro, Jack, 78
Chicago Cubs, 27, 40n, 45, 91, 92, 185, 257, 313
Chicago White Sox, 145, 296n
Chiles, Eddie, 99n, 112
Cincinnati Reds
1973–1980 seasons, 14, 26, 30, 69
1981 season, 44n, 84–85, 92, 144–47, 149–50, 167, 170–71
1995 playoffs, 316
Clark, Jack, 314
Clemente, Roberto, 188n
Cleveland Indians, 76, 118n, 173n, 272–73
cocaine use, 131–37
“coconut snatching,” 18–19, 20, 22, 148, 159n
Colosi, Nick, 260
Concepción, Dave, 44n
Connors, Chuck, 125–26
Cosell, Howard, 234n, 237, 242n, 254, 265n, 287, 300
Cox, Billy, 22
Crandall, Del, 38
Cresse, Mark, 69, 168
Cromartie, Warren, 38, 202, 213
Cronin, Joe, 67
Cruz, José, 56, 181, 191
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