Just in time for opening day of They Bled Blue, Los Angeles Magazine has an excerpt about the most remarkable aspect of a remarkable season. Fernandomania was real, and it was spectacular.

They Bled Blue, out today wherever fine books are sold.

I’ll be reading tonight at Diesel Books in Santa Monica, and on Thursday I’ll be talking baseball with author Ron Rapoport and Dodgers team historian Mark Langill at the South Pasadena Library. Come on down.