The year is 1948 and Leo Durocher, feisty manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, has committed the ultimate act of betrayal by defecting to the rival New York Giants. This traitorous act is very much on Jonathan Manheim"s mind as he recounts the events of a tumultuous year in his life, a year involving love, ambition, and acts of betrayal. And it is through the experiences that he has in this year, the year of Durocher, that he learns the true meaning of loyalty and friendship.