Here's another great Spring Training photograph, dated March 9, 1936 (eBay auction link). Per the description on the reverse:
Stanley (Frenchie) Bordagaray, outfielder, slides into home plate, covered by catcher Walter Millies, during a spring training game of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Clearwater, Fla.Below are more links to check out:
- This Day in Dodgers History: In 1945 Dodger President Branch Rickey announced that the team has signed two black ballplayers, shortstop Jackie Robinson and pitcher John "Needle Nose" Wright, to play with Brooklyn's Triple A team in Montreal. In 1981 the Dodgers defeated the Yankees in Game 3 of the World Series, 5-4. Fernando Valenzuela threw a nine-hit complete game. In 1998 Davey Johnson is named the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- Happy Birthday, Lave Winham, Rube Bressler, Lee Grissom, Billy Sullivan, Solly Drake & Jim Bunning!
- Via Jack Baer at Yahoo Sports -- "MLB umpire Joe West sues ex-player Paul Lo Duca for claiming Billy Wagner bribed him with car rides." I think Paul is in trouble.
- Former Dodger Will Venable has interviewed for the Giants manager position, via Henry Schulman and John Shea at the San Francisco Chronicle.
- Congrats! Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame has just announced that Dodgers' SVP of Planning and Development, Janet Marie Smith, will be inducted as a part of the 2020 class, via Jim Holder at WTVA.
- It's unfortunate this is happening so late in the process. All it will do is delay these necessary Dodger Stadium renovations. Via Blake Williams at Dodgers Nation -- "Dodgers Receiving Community Pushback on 2020 Stadium Renovations: The communities neighboring Chavez Ravine are trying to stop the stadium upgrades."
- Per Haley Sawyer at The Signal -- "Former Dodger makes surprise appearance at Canyons baseball practice."
(Adrian) Gonzalez spent an hour with the Cowboys, participating in multiple drills. He played catch with Canyon catcher Tyler DeYoung, threw BP to hitters and then finally took part in BP himself.“It just kind of shows that the type of level you have to be at in order to get there,” Root said. “I’m a pitcher and he was a hitter, so I don’t really correspond, but I kind of learned what a major league baseball looks like. It comes off the bat pretty hard.”
- Tim Brown gets it right, via his recent article at Yahoo Sports -- "After ignoring zero-tolerance abuse policy, it's time for Astros to be remorseful."
They choose their course, as owners and leaders of the franchise, as regular folks in their community, as — primarily — men. From that insular circle arose the midlevel executive, surrounded by men in various stages of cheerful intoxication, in a beery and testosterone-flexed room meant to honor an American League pennant. This is the environment in which Brandon Taubman reportedly decided his course would be to settle an old score or flaunt his place among the real athletes or ply the advantages of numbers and cigar smoke. You might call that cowardly.
- Check this out! Via Donna & Turner Ward on twitter.
So excited our story was released today. Go to https://t.co/tZgDCDJA6L to view the full film https://t.co/uG01gHjR7D— Donna Ward (@Donnaward19) October 22, 2019
- Get your act together, Houston! Via the BBWAA on twitter:
BBWAA statement on incident in Houston. pic.twitter.com/lOwrbD9pLr— BBWAA (@officialBBWAA) October 22, 2019
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