num_pages: 336
description: News-making inside revelations about the tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were remade from top to bottomfrom the ownership of the team to management to the players on the fieldbecoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball.In 2012 the Los Angeles Dodgers were bought out of bankruptcy in the most expensive sale in sports history. Los Angeles icon Magic Johnson and his partners hoped to put together a team worthy of Hollywood: consistently entertaining. By most accounts they have succeeded if not always in the way they might have imagined.Now Molly Knight tells the story of the Dodgers 2013 season with detailed previously unreported revelations. She shares a behind-the-scenes account of the astonishing sale of the Dodgers and why the team was not overpriced as well as what the Dodgers actually knew in advance about rookie phenom and Cuban defector Yasiel Puig and how they and teammates handled him during his roller-coaster season. We learn how infighting on the team nearly derailed the 2013 season and nearly cost manager Don Mattingly his joband how the team turned around the season in the most remarkable fifty-game stretch (42-8) of any team since World War II before losing in the NLCS. Knight also reveals the facts behind the blockbuster trade with the Red Soxand why that trade may yet turn out to be of greater benefit to the Dodgers. And theres an intimate portrait of star pitcher Clayton Kershaw probably the best pitcher in the game today including details about the contract offer he turned down before accepting the richest contract any pitcher ever signed.Exciting surprising and filled with juicy details Molly Knights account is a must-read for baseball fans and anyone who wants the inside story of todays Los Angeles Dodgers.
language: English
title: The Best Team Money Can Buy
publisher: Simon & Schuster