Letters to the Editor: Going from a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the 1950s to a ‘nervous wreck’ in 2024
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Going from a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the 1950s to a ‘nervous wreck’ in 2024

LA Times  

To the editor: It was considered outre to be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan on Long Island, where I lived and where most people followed the Yankees or the Giants. On the morning of Jan. 28, 1958, catcher Roy Campanella was in a bad car crash in a nearby Long Island town. In homeroom that day, the nun at St. Mary’s High School had each of us go up to the front of the room and tell the class the most important item on the news. I envied the deportment of manager Dave Roberts, because I was a nervous wreck: I had been a long time without a home team.

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‘Be the hunter.’ Dodgers focus on dominance, not dynasty, amid renewed title pursuit
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1 week, 3 days ago

‘Be the hunter.’ Dodgers focus on dominance, not dynasty, amid renewed title pursuit

LA Times  

When Dave Roberts addressed his full team for the first time this spring, he didn’t use the word dynasty. Roberts looked around a room — one that included the reigning National League and World Series most valuable players, two more former MVPs, two Cy Young Award winner who had combined to win the award five times, and a host of …

Letters to Sports: Toasting the Dodgers’ World Series title
5 months ago

Letters to Sports: Toasting the Dodgers’ World Series title

LA Times  

Props to Dave Roberts for managing the Dodgers to a World Series title. Joe Kevany Mount Washington :: In 1988, I was at the Kirk Gibson walk-off World Series home run game with my 71-year-old father. Maybe now this two-time winning World Series manager, and the man with the highest winning percentage in the history of baseball, will receive a …

Dodgers Fan Suffers Severe Hand Injuries After Fireworks Mishap During World Series Celebration
5 months ago

Dodgers Fan Suffers Severe Hand Injuries After Fireworks Mishap During World Series Celebration

Hindustan Times  

A Dodgers fan suffered severe hand injuries after a firework exploded during the team's World Series celebration. The incident, captured on video, went viral online, with fans expressing shock and concern. The victim, in his 20s, was rushed to the hospital, with multiple eyewitness accounts detailing the horrifying accident. The incident has drawn attention from authorities, with police responding to …

Dodgers fans turn to lucky jerseys, sweaters, rosaries and prayer to help team win the title
5 months ago

Dodgers fans turn to lucky jerseys, sweaters, rosaries and prayer to help team win the title

LA Times  

Fans cheer for the Los Angeles Dodgers to celebrate their World Series win along 5th Street in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 1, 2024. “I was wearing my lucky jersey and I knew we would come back.” Gonzales was one of several fans attending Friday’s victory parade who said they had patted shirts and jerseys, kissed rosaries and prayed during …

A ‘golden era of Dodgers baseball’
5 months ago

A ‘golden era of Dodgers baseball’

LA Times  

Teammates celebrate with Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler, left, after winning the World Series on Wednesday night. Fans on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles celebrate the Dodgers’ World Series win on Wednesday night. “This Dodgers’ team always seemed destined to reach the mountaintop,” L.A. Times Dodgers beat reporter Jack Harris wrote Wednesday night. “They made sure of that …

From Brooklyn's Darling to Los Angeles' Colossus: The Dodgers' Epic Journey Across the Miles
5 months, 1 week ago

From Brooklyn's Darling to Los Angeles' Colossus: The Dodgers' Epic Journey Across the Miles

CNN  

The Brooklyn Dodgers have gone from being a darling of New York to becoming Los Angeles' colossus. Charles Byrne's vision and strategic acquisitions transformed the franchise from a struggling team to one of the most successful in Major League Baseball history. The Dodgers' journey showcases the power of smart ownership, strategic expansion, and the allure of a city's passion for …

From Brooklyn's Darling to Los Angeles' Colossus: The Dodgers' Epic Journey Across the Miles
5 months, 1 week ago

From Brooklyn's Darling to Los Angeles' Colossus: The Dodgers' Epic Journey Across the Miles

CNN  

The Brooklyn Dodgers went from being a darling of New York to becoming Los Angeles' colossus. Charles Byrne, a real estate magnate, bought the franchise in 1883 and built Washington Park, which became the team's home. The Dodgers won the pennant four times in the first 30 years of the 20th century, but their reputation shifted from winning machine to …

‘Most satisfying’ year: How Dave Roberts changed narrative, got Dodgers to World Series
5 months, 1 week ago

‘Most satisfying’ year: How Dave Roberts changed narrative, got Dodgers to World Series

LA Times  

Standing atop a makeshift stage on the Dodger Stadium infield Sunday night, Dave Roberts grabbed hold of the mic, lifted his right arm toward the sky and asked the Chavez Ravine crowd a simple, resounding question. “Hey!” Roberts shouted, his hoarse voice booming through the stadium speakers after the Dodgers’ pennant-clinching win over the New York Mets in Game 6 …

Letters to Sports: Forget about the Dodgers! Wait, when will Shohei Ohtani sign?
1 year, 5 months ago

Letters to Sports: Forget about the Dodgers! Wait, when will Shohei Ohtani sign?

LA Times  

I swear, I’m done. And the final straw came when Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman said they’re “at a loss” to explain the sweep by the Diamondbacks. Jim O’Fallon Ocean Beach :: Dave Roberts has proven himself to be a competent manager during the season, and having an excellent relief corps certainly doesn’t hurt. But based upon his record in …

Letters to Sports: Singing Dodgers blues over pitching woes
1 year, 6 months ago

Letters to Sports: Singing Dodgers blues over pitching woes

LA Times  

Dylan Hernandez’s smug, snarky commentary regarding the Dodgers’ playoff prospects given their current starting pitching made for tiresome reading to say the least. Just a day after announcing their new policy, the networks announced their new deal with the NBA, which included each team’s “stars” playing basically every game. James Mayorkas Los Angeles :: I happen to have Prime Video …

Inside the Dodgers’ collapse: Why baseball’s winningest team isn’t in the World Series
2 years, 5 months ago

Inside the Dodgers’ collapse: Why baseball’s winningest team isn’t in the World Series

LA Times  

Dave Roberts walked out to the mound once, then again, in the seventh inning, two lonely treks with his team’s season on the brink. “If you’re asking me if I think the best team wins the World Series every year, I would say no,” president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said at an end-of-season news conference last week. “I think …

Letters to Sports: Why do the supposedly ‘smart’ Dodgers look so stupid?
2 years, 5 months ago

Letters to Sports: Why do the supposedly ‘smart’ Dodgers look so stupid?

LA Times  

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, second from left, speaks with relief pitcher Yency Almonte during the seventh inning of the Dodgers’ loss in Game 4 of the NLDS against the San Diego Padres on Oct. 15. Deborah R. Ishida Beverly Hills :: As a lifetime Dodger fan I’m thinking of the recent Dodgers’ season in terms of a disappointment and not …

The roots of the 20 Years War between the Dodgers and L.A.’s Mexican community
3 years, 10 months ago

The roots of the 20 Years War between the Dodgers and L.A.’s Mexican community

LA Times  

The construction of Walter O’Malley’s shining, new stadium on a hill that began in 1959 is not just a baseball story, but also of three communities displaced to build a housing project, only to find themselves on an unexpected collision course with L.A.’s determined effort to become a big league city. It would lay the foundation of the cold war …

Dodgers’ World Series win gives L.A. a joyous night in a year of such misery
4 years, 5 months ago

Dodgers’ World Series win gives L.A. a joyous night in a year of such misery

LA Times  

In a city reeling from the medical and economic devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, forced to restrict its celebrated freewheeling lifestyle and even robbed of the sacred ritual of a summer at Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers’ World Series victory felt like a vaccine — if only temporary — for 2020’s many miseries. “This is the best we’ve felt in a …

Baseball's first fans of 2020 see Dodgers-Braves NLCS opener
4 years, 5 months ago

Baseball's first fans of 2020 see Dodgers-Braves NLCS opener

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Count the Texas resident and Los Angeles Dodgers fan …

Dave Roberts knows Dodgers fans need a World Series title
4 years, 6 months ago

Dave Roberts knows Dodgers fans need a World Series title

LA Times  

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts points in the dugout before a game against Arizona on Sept. 2 at Dodger Stadium. “But some things people tell me,” he said, “it seems personal.” With the top-seeded Dodgers opening their best-of-three National League wild-card series against the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night, Roberts will enter these playoffs as the NL manager with the most …

Left-hander pitched Dodgers to first title
17 years, 2 months ago

Left-hander pitched Dodgers to first title

LA Times  

Times Staff Writer Buzzie Bavasi said that he had two great competitors in his time as the Dodgers’ general manager. Podres, the left-hander who pitched the Brooklyn Dodgers to their first World Series championship in 1955, died Sunday at a hospital in Glens Falls, N.Y., of complications from a leg infection. Pitcher Don Newcombe said that in a pre-game meeting …

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