Copying It Down

An Anecdotal Memoir

H.A. Dorfman

• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN:
  9780761847564
• Edition: 1

In Copying It Down, Harvey Dorfman recounts his experiences in the world of sports. From his childhood sickbed, Dorfman went on to achieve a myriad of successes, including goalie on a national co-champion soccer team and coach of a high school basketball team that won a state championship, and is a possessor of four World Series Rings (three with Oakland; and one with Florida). He eventually attained a status of world renown in the field of sport psychology.

Here, in the second of three volumes, Dorfman shares anecdotes that include the fourteen years spent in the dugouts of three major league teams. The book concludes in 1998, when his professional associations with major league baseball organizations ended.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Chapter One: Through a Door Slowly
• Chapter Two: … It’s Who You Know
• Chapter Three: Cast of Characters
• Chapter Four: Football
• Chapter Five: Basketball & Baseball
• Chapter Six: Mountain Greenery: The Quest
• Chapter Seven: The Road Most Traveled
• Chapter Eight: Up, Down & Away
• Chapter Nine: A.D. — A Different Sort
• Chapter Ten: Remediation: Classroom & Court
• Chapter Eleven: Basketball, Again
• Chapter Twelve: From Warsaw to Barre
• Chapter Thirteen: Another Door
• Chapter Fourteen: Act I: Disorientation
• Chapter Fifteen: Putting It into Play
• Chapter Sixteen: The Beer Is in the Kitchen
• Chapter Seventeen: Staff Development
• Chapter Eighteen: Welcome to Huntsville
• Chapter Nineteen: The Rest of the Season
• Chapter Twenty: Some Light Ahead
• Chapter Twenty-One: Anthony Adverse
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Mission Accomplished
• Chapter Twenty-Three: All Manner of Instruction
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Scouts
• Chapter Twenty-Five: The First ‘Wild Card’
• Chapter Twenty-Six: The Right Way
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: Australia
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Parents
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Puck Stops Here
• Chapter Thirty: A Fish Story
• Chapter Thirty-One: Back Up the Bus
• Chapter Thirty-Two: The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round
• Chapter Thirty-Three: The Long and Winding Road
• Chapter Thirty-Four: Marlins Win!
• Chapter Thirty-Five: A Manta What?