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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleDodgers 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...
View ArticleRemembering 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...
View ArticleSuspended 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...
View ArticleDodger 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...
View ArticlePreviewing 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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