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LAA: Richards (0-0, 0.00 ERA)
NYY: Nova (10-4, 3.81 ERA)
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CHW: Humber (8-8, 3.56 ERA)
BAL: Hunter (1-2, 4.43 ERA)
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If controversy surrounding Frank McCourt were happening to the owner of the Yankees instead of the Dodgers owner, books would already have been written and the casting for the HBO special would be well underway. Because it is happening in baseball’s second largest media market, rather than New York, it has not gotten the attention it might have. It could be argued that given the size of the Los Angeles market and the import of the Dodgers to baseball in general, the story has gotten surprisingly little publicity.
The reason that argument is not precisely right is that the Dodgers, once of baseball’s proudest and best run franchises, no longer occupy that role and have been on baseball’s periphery for a number of years. Between 1941-1981, the Dodgers not only dominated the National League, winning 16 pennants in 41 years, but employed some of the game’s biggest and most exciting stars. The Dodgers were also at the center of two of baseball’s most important developments in the post-war period. First, they were the team that integrated Major League Baseball when Jackie Robinson played his rookie year for Brooklyn in 1947. Second, they led the move westward when, along with the Giants they left New York for California following the 1957 season. Additionally, shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, Sandy Koufax, who is Jewish, emerged as the Dodgers best player and biggest star, thus cementing the team’s reputation for diversity and tolerance.
Since beating the Yankees in the 1981 World Series 30 years ago, the Dodgers story has been different. During the last three decades they have won only one pennant and World Series and went more twenty years without even making it back to the NLCS. Their current 22 year streak without a World Series appearance is the longest in franchise history. Symbolically, the beginning of the demise of the Los Angeles Dodgers off the field can be traced to April 6, 1987 when then general manager
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