(Article and photos courtesy of the Institute for Baseball Studies) The Institute for Baseball Studies, a humanities-based research center on the campus of Whittier College, has announced the receipt of a major donation of Negro Leagues memorabilia.  The collection, which was donated by Michael Brown, includes 302 baseballs signed by Negro Leagues players (many of whom […]

For the second time in as many days, Dodgers rookie center fielder Joc Pederson wasn’t in the Dodgers starting lineup on Saturday against the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim. Conventional wisdom suggests that Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was simply keeping his All-Star center fielder out of the starting lineup because of pitching match-ups against Angels left-handers Hector Santiago […]

It was the first time it has ever happened in MLB history – the MVP from one league squaring off against the MVP from the other league. On Saturday afternoon, 2014 NL MVP and Cy Young award winner Clayton Kershaw went head-to-head with 2014 AL MVP Mike Trout in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium […]

The Dodgers got some offensive power from a couple of unlikely sources on Friday night as the Dodgers topped the Angels by a score of 5-3. Dodgers second baseman Howie Kendrick, in his first game against his former team, absolutely smoked a Hector Santiago 74-MPH curveball 10 rows deep into the Left Field Pavilion for a […]