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You traded Bob Welch for what?

Getty Images The Dodgers traded 31-year-old Bob Welch (pictured above in 1983) after a 1987 season in which he had a 3.22 ERA and 196 strikeouts in 251 2/3 innings. Why does Loney have four steals and...

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How Reggie Jackson might have led the Dodgers over the Yankees in the World...

AP Reggie Jackson played in five consecutive All-Star Games from 1971-75 and 14 in his career. In 1973, Reggie Jackson won the American League Most Valuable Player Award. In 1974, he finished fourth...

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Dodgers had momentum, heart and purpose in 1978 … and it wasn’t enough

APJim Gilliam spent 25 years – half his life – in a Dodger uniform. Keeping with this week’s theme … Davey Lopes, wearing Gilliam’s 19 on his sleeve during Game 1 of the ’78 Series, worshiped the...

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Remembering Bob Welch, 1956-2014

[mlbvideo id=”31120059″ width=”550″ height=”308″ /] By Jon Weisman Bob Welch was much more than a single strikeout of Reggie Jackson. He pitched three one-hitters; I was at one of them, a 15-year-old...

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Suspended game returns memories of Chicago 1982

By Jon Weisman In every issue of Dodger Insider magazine, we run a boxscore of the month, and the one for August happens to tie in with what’s happening in Washington right now. Dodgers 2, Cubs 1...

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Dodger playoff series rarely go to final game

Dodger winner-take-all playoff games 10/12/88: *Dodgers 6, Mets 0 (NLCS) 10/19/81: Dodgers 2, *Expos 1 (NLCS) 10/11/81: *Dodgers 4, Astros 0 (NLDS) 10/14/65: Dodgers 2, *Twins 0 (WS) 10/10/56: Yankees...

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Previewing Brothers in Arms … Part Four: The Modern Classicists

With Part Four of Brothers in Arms: Koufax, Kershaw, and the Dodgers’ Extraordinary Pitching Tradition (pre-order now!), we head directly into the pitchers of my own childhood, the ones I can describe...

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