COVID Curveball, Tim Neverett
COVID Curveball, Tim Neverett
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COVID Curveball
An Inside View of the 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers World Championship Season

Author: Tim Neverett, Orel Hershiser

Narrator: Tim Neverett

Unabridged: 7 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/31/2021


Synopsis

A riveting inside account of the most unforgettable season in Los Angeles Dodgers history, from the COVID-delayed start through the incredible playoff run, by the broadcaster who saw it all.

Amid strict new rules and Coronavirus outbreaks on other teams that wreaked havoc on the schedule, the Dodgers maintained a laser focus as a team and organization, and ultimately, won the first bubbled playoffs in the history of Major League Baseball.

In COVID Curveball, author and Dodgers’ broadcaster Tim Neverett takes us through this unprecedented season, offering exclusive access and firsthand, edge-of-your-seat, play-byplay coverage of the surreal days and weeks that led up to the dramatic championship
climax. It’s a highly entertaining, often humorous chronicle of the quirky nature of the season, the goings-on behind the scenes at the stadium and MLB at large, as well as the unique chemistry forged in the diverse and dynamic clubhouse. Along with insights into
the potent lineup that produced jaw-dropping moments by Mookie Betts, Corey Seager, Justin Turner, Max Muncy, and Cody Bellinger, the book also celebrates the incredible achievements of Clayton Kershaw that cemented his Hall-of-Fame legacy, and the
remarkable job done by Dave Roberts and the Dodgers’ executives and ownership.

Highlighted by empty stands, remote broadcasts, and relentless testing, 2020 was perhaps the strangest baseball season ever … but it produced the most savored World Series celebration in the history of the game.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeremy on October 13, 2021

Living through this season in COVID lockdown living in what is now officially 'the most locked down city in the world,' I had nothing but time to follow every update, watch almost every pitch of this incredible season. So much fun being taken back through the ups and (generally speaking, blown out of......more

Goodreads review by Brett on May 17, 2022

A great trip down memory lane, albeit a bit of a dry game-by-game look. I would have liked more insight into the locker room and personalities, but social distancing obviously made that impossible. If you followed the team as a fan, you won’t learn much. The best parts were really the discussion of......more

Goodreads review by RICK "SHAQ" on May 11, 2023

RICK “SHAQ” GOLDSTEIN SAYS: I GUESS HE DIDN’T LIKE MY CURVEBALL OR SOMETHING (JOE KELLY) *************************************************************************** As a born in Brooklyn… Ebbets Field attending… member of a Brooklyn Dodger loving family… who moved at the exact same time as *OUR BELOVE......more

Goodreads review by Dave on September 15, 2021

The most difficult and shortest season in Major League Baseball history is chronicled by Dodger broadcaster Tim Neverett. The book reads as Neverett’s daily diary from the start of Spring Training, that was quickly cancelled due to the pandemic, through the restart in midsummer all the way to the en......more

Goodreads review by Zach on January 14, 2022

The 2020 MLB season was one of the strangest in the long history of the sport, what with it being shrunk to 60 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic and all the restrictions that placed upon it. In this book, author Tim Neverett (a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers' broadcast team) essentially pulls to......more