Don Drysdale

Vin Scully prompts memories of someone dear

2013-03-30 21:30:00

I lost my dad decades ago. But then this guy comes along who likes to sing as he walks, a jolly Irishman who laughs and cracks wise with a hint of the devil in him and I remember that guy. We become friendly, but then who isn't a friend of his? He...

Bill Lachemann, 78, keeps Angels ahead of curve behind the plate

2013-03-19 23:02:00

TEMPE, Ariz. — Bill Lachemann was on the same Dorsey High baseball team as legendary manager Sparky Anderson. He played his first professional game five years before Angels rising star Mike Trout's father was born and caught former Angels pitcher...

Sandy Koufax revels in his roots as he comes to help Dodgers bloom

2013-02-18 00:00:00

— Shortly after noon Sunday, a black SUV pulled up at the front door of Camelback Ranch amid the breathless aura of a royal homecoming. Two Dodgers employees were waiting on the curb. Several others were staring out from inside the main building....

After zany play, Willie Davis safe at third

2012-08-21 00:13:51

Marvin Miller dies at 95; baseball union chief led push for free agency

2012-11-28 00:00:00

Nothing about Marvin Miller seemed feisty or controversial at first glance; the soft-spoken economist was a smallish man with gray hair and a tidy mustache. But as a union leader, it was Miller who took on baseball's establishment in the late 1960s,...

Baseball off-season can be tough on fans who see favorite players jump ship

2012-12-13 00:00:00

The most intriguing game that baseball plays is not hitting and pitching. It is musical chairs. This is the sport's funny season. But unlike golf, where the funny season was simply a time for Freddie Couples to make more money for Christmas shopping,...

Can a Dodgers fan root for Frisco? A Giant dilemma

2012-10-28 13:51:00

So I was sitting in the office when I happened to remark that I liked the Giants for the World Series. Like the Greek Furies, three colleagues swooped in and lined up at the cubicle divider. No real Dodgers fan would back San Francisco, they said. And...

Southern California Close-Ups: Los Angeles' park neighborhoods

2012-03-30 15:49:00

First published on March 20, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. It's not easy being the lungs of Los Angeles. But Griffith Park, the foremost green space in a city notorious for meager parkland and abundant smog, endures bravely, maybe even...

Harry Wendelstedt dies at 73; baseball umpire also ran school

2012-03-10 00:00:00

Harry Wendelstedt, a retired 33-year Major League Baseball umpire who also nurtured a new generation of the game's arbiters for more than 30 years, died Friday at a hospital in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 73 and had brain cancer. Wendelstedt, who...

Capping an era of L.A. oil exploration

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Dodgers get nod they wanted: Vin Scully bobblehead night

2012-01-09 16:38:04

Greatest sports figures in L.A. history No. 14: Don Drysdale

2011-10-19 16:33:54

outfielder Hector Lopez to ground out to short for the final out of the sweep-sealing victory. Koufax, who pitched his second complete game of the series, was named the World Series MVP. The Dodgers went ahead, 1-0, on a fifth-inning home run by Frank Howard.

2012-04-03 15:56:30

Big D was one of the best pitchers in baseball during his time with the Dodgers.

2011-10-24 16:06:05

Drysdale appeared in The Brady Bunch and was apparently a baseball player of some sort. Meyers was the only woman to sign a contract with an NBA team and is in the Basketball Hall of Fame. They were married from 1986 until Drysdale s death in 1993.

2011-08-03 18:00:37