The Best Team Money Can Buy, Molly Knight
The Best Team Money Can Buy, Molly Knight
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The Best Team Money Can Buy
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse

Author: Molly Knight

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 11 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/14/2015

Synopsis

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. By most accounts they have succeeded, if not always in the way they might have imagined.

In The Best Team Money Can Buy, Molly Knight tells the story of the Dodgers' 2013 and 2014 seasons. She shares a behind-the-scenes account of the astonishing sale of the Dodgers, revealing why the team was not overpriced, as well as what the Dodgers actually knew in advance about rookie phenom and Cuban defector Yasiel Puig. We learn how close manager Don Mattingly was to losing his job during the 2013 season—and 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 provides a rare glimpse into the infighting and mistrust that derailed the team in 2014 and resulted in ridding the roster of difficult personalities and the hiring of a new front office.

Exciting, surprising, and filled with juicy details, Molly Knight's account is a must-listen for baseball fans and anyone who wants the inside story of today's Los Angeles Dodgers.

About Molly Knight

Molly Knight has written about baseball for ESPN magazine for the past eight seasons. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Glamour, and Variety. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carolyn on July 17, 2015

The only thing I didn't like about this book was having to re-live the last two Dodgers' playoff series.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 20, 2017

The saving grace of The Best Team Money Can Buy is Molly Knight's ability to seamlessly weave from anecdote to anecdote within the context of a larger piece. This keeps the book moving at a quick, easy, and mostly enjoyable pace. There are a few interesting anecdotes in this book, such as Ned Colett......more

Goodreads review by Harold on August 04, 2015

I thoroughly enjoyed this book for several reasons-not the least of which was the easy style of her writing. It is smooth, clear, and without pretense. It is written so that even the most casual fan can understand and appreciate the history of the Dodgers in recent years.The book follows the evoluti......more

Goodreads review by Matt on September 11, 2016

A serviceable and intermittently memorable entry in the "follow a team for a year" genre. The bulk of the book follows the lead up to the 2013 Dodgers season and the season itself. There's a lot of interesting background on the players themselves. The author runs through the season itself at a brisk......more

Goodreads review by Longfellow on June 30, 2020

My favorite baseball books in recent years have been ones that focus on a sabermetric angle: Moneyball, The Extra 2%, and Big Data Baseball are probably the best known of these, and I’ve listed them in order of my favorites. The Best Team Money Can Buy does not focus on sabermetrics at all, but it n......more

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