For the better part of five decades, the Dodgers 1968 draft class was considered to be the best in the history of the MLB First-Year Player Draft. At the time, the draft was conducted in four different phases — two in January and two in June. The January phases were for high school kids who […]

Let’s face it, there isn’t a Dodger fan on the planet who wasn’t very much looking forward to seeing outfielder Mookie Betts in a Dodger uniform during the 2020 regular season … not one. After all, at only 27 years old and in only six major league seasons, all the Nashville, TN native and fifth-round […]

Just as every good leader should, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said on Saturday evening that although delayed and despite increasing evidence to the contrary, he is “still hopeful” that there will be a 2020 baseball season. “For fans and families and all of us participating as far as part of the organization, media, everyone looked […]

No one wants to think it, let alone say it – at least not publically or in print – but the 2020 Major League Baseball season is not going to happen. How can it? With the entire country in social-distancing / self-quarantined lockdown and with the number of confirmed cases of the extremely contagious COVID-19 […]

Periodically we read articles or perhaps participate in polls that attempt to identify the best players, by position, in the long, rich history of the Dodgers. No matter the publication, there are certain players who make it into every discussion: Roy Campanella, Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, and Don […]

On Wednesday morning, legendary baseball agent Scott Boras did a very Scott Boras thing – he suggested that Major League Baseball could – and should – play a full 162-game schedule when baseball resumes following the coronavirus pandemic shutdown and should, of all things, have a Christmas World Series. No really, he did. In an […]

Throughout their 136-year history (74 in Brooklyn and 62 in Los Angeles), there have been a number of devastating home runs hit against the Dodgers. For post-World War II baby boomers, no home run was more crushing to Dodger fans than New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson‘s famed ‘Shot heard ’round the World’ off of […]

Early Monday evening, social media was at its finest when popular Dodgers broadcasters Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser hosted Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten and Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman on YouTube for a video conference via the Dodgers Twitter account. During the near 15-minute (almost live) broadcast, the two Dodgers executives […]

Where were you 59-years ago today when an obscure piece of Major League Baseball history was made? March 23, 1961 – Dodgers Grapefruit League Spring Training game in Orlando, Florida against the Minnesota Twins. A relief pitcher scheduled to make the short flight from Vero Beach to Orlando misses the flight, so Sandy Koufax is […]