We’ve all seen them – military flyovers. They are usually reserved for major sporting events, National Holidays, and such; and they are awesome. Unfortunately, there have been several of them lately for another reason; not unfortunate for those whom they are intended to honor, but unfortunate for the mere fact that they are even happening: […]

Assuming there will be some semblance of a 2020 Major League Baseball season played in the next several months, there are persistent rumors that all 30-teams will use the Designated Hitter rule for all games played, including the postseason. Forty-seven MLB seasons have been played since the American League adopted the DH in 1973 in […]

A wise man once said: “If you could buy him for what he’s worth and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth, you’d be a rich man.” It is quite clear that whoever it was who first said this (or one of several variations of it) wasn’t the owner of a major league baseball […]

If you were born in 1964, chances are exceptionally good that your independent recollection of actually seeing Dodgers Hall of Fame right-hander Don Drysdale pitch live and in-person is extremely vague, as you would have been five years old when he pitched his final game on August 5, 1969. If you were born on or […]

SPECIAL GUESTS BILLIE JEAN KING, KEN JEONG JOIN DODGER PLAYERS & MORE THAN 15,000 FANS ON LATEST ZOOM PARTY Weekly event to return next Monday, May 18 at 6 pm PT   *  *  *   Special guest appearances by Billie Jean King and Ken Jeong highlighted the Dodgers’ latest Zoom Party, which had more than 15,000 unique accounts sign […]

Most die-hard baseball fans are well aware that Rawlings has been the official and exclusive supplier of baseballs for Major League Baseball for over a quarter-century. They may even know that each Rawlings Official Major League Baseball (ROMLB) is made in Costa Rica. But what most baseball enthusiasts might not know is the extreme scrutiny and the […]

I don’t consider myself a baseball expert. I used to think I was, but as I got older, I began to realize how much I didn’t know. My younger self envisioned becoming a major leaguer, but that kind of crazy imagination lent itself much more to a career in cartooning. When I was 21 years old, […]

Shortly after the 2020 Cactus League and Grapefruit League Spring Training seasons were suspended and the 2020 regular season postponed for (then) two weeks due to the emergency created by the coronavirus pandemic, Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association negotiated an agreement on unprecedented contingency plans. According to reports on March […]

If you Google ‘Dodgers throwback uniform,’ one of the first things you’ll find is an image of a powder blue jersey with the Dodgers’ classic ‘Brooklyn’ script logo across the chest. This one floats to the top because in 2011, the Dodgers wore a non-satin variation of these jerseys as part of a throwback uniform […]