It took something truly remarkable to save the 1981 Major League Baseball season from being remembered only as the year of the players' strike. It took the Los Angeles Dodgers - "Fernandomania," 'Sorda, Garv, Bake, and the Penguin. It took three amazing October comebacks to beat the Houston Astros, the Montreal Expos and, finally, the New York Yankees, avenging Dodger World Series losses to the Yankees in 1977 and 1978.Rick Monday was right in the middle of that magical 1981 Dodger season when Rookie of the Year Fernando Valenzuela and his Cy Young Award-winning pitching powered the team to the world championship. Monday did his part to be heroic, as well, when his two-out, ninth inning home run in the deciding Game Five against the Expos gave the Dodgers the National League pennant. His recollections and conversations with teammates in Rick Monday's Tales from the Dodgers Dugout provide a unique behind-the-scenes view of one of the most amazing teams and seasons in baseball history.