Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Rivals 1
Harney's Dirt 8
Landfill 14
Ineptitude and Inferiority 16
Superiority Complex 23
Alex Pompez and the Latino Pipeline 27
The Preacher 31
Meet the 1962 San Francisco Giants 39
Death Struggle 50
September 1962 61
1951 Redux 69
Beat L.A.! 77
"A Festive Prison Yard" 95
October 1962 100
The East-West Fall Classic 112
For the Record: 1962 126
Duel 129
The Roseboro Incident 139
Year of the Pitcher 145
The 600/3,000 Club 151
Last Hurrah 155
Here Comes the Niners 160
A Black Day by the Bay 162
1970 Redux 168
It Is Darkest Just before the Dawn 172
Celebrity Corner 179
Halicki's No-Hitter, Montefusco's Boasts 183
The Melancholy Story of Jim Plunkett 188
Renaissance in '78 194
The Catch 199
Birth of a Dynasty 207
Morgan Breaks Dodger Hearts 214
Super Bowl XIX: 49ers 39, Dolphins 16 221
Craig and Clark and Mitchell and Dravecky and … "Humm Baby!" 225
"It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" 246
So Close and Yet So Far 263
Saviors 268
The OJ Scandal 271
Super Bowl XXIX: 49ers 49, Chargers 26 281
The North versus the South 284
The Greatness That Is, Er, Was the Raiders 293
The Computer That Was Dallas 298
The "Steroid Era" 303
Farewell to the "Prison Yard" 316
TO the Whiner 326
Doldrums 335
Harbaugh and Kaepernick: The Dawning of a New Age 338
49ers of Silicon Valley 343
Bibliography 353