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So many great Dodgers! And still no room on the list for Rick Monday and Reggie Smith (who was a better hitter than Garvey) and Davey Lopes.
Jackie Robinson isn’t 1st ? That’s racist.
My number one has always been Don Drysdale.
That’s easy
The Artful one.
I was the best Dodger in fifth grade. I loved dodgeball.
He did play the 1927 season with the Philadelphia A's, a team with seven future Hall-of-Famers on their roster, six of them position players.
It was an awesome team which few people remember because it finished second to the 1927 Yankees, arguably the greatest team of all time.
Yeah, I know a subsequent edition of the Yankees won more games, but they didn't have competition even in the same class as the 1927 A's.
I have the autograph’s of three on this list on original game balls. I have the whole dodger team (on original game balls) autograph’s from 1984-1989 (to include Belinda Carlisle when she was dating Steve Howe).
14,383 ballots for one of MLB's most popular franchises, based in the 2nd largest media market in the US and a catchment area of 13 million persons and users able to cast ballots electronically is 'amazing?' Er, no, it's an AMAZINGLY low number and undeniable evidence of the Times' vanishing readership in all formats...long may their demise continue.
Including broadcasters and executives is gimmicky and silly, even if the broadcaster is the unmatched and unmatchable Vin Scully. Yes, teams have 'retired' microphones for Chick Hearn, Jack Buck et al but again that is a bit gimmicky and silly since a) they don't involve the playing of the sport and b) other microphones will be used since broadcasts will continue after death or retirement.
I know the Brooklyn/LA schism is an eternal topic but I think the LA Times should focus exclusively on the LA Dodger era.
No. 21 Roger Owens :o)
Vin Scully is a sportscaster and was never a Dodger. He worked for CBS and NBC. Shouldn’t be on the list. If he’s on the list for sentimental reasons, then perhaps we could include mascots, hot dog vendors, etc
"The 20 Greatest Duggars of All Time"...lol
My favorite Dodger was Manny Mota.
Cool, Sandy Koufax number 1, that is who I would have picked for the one slot too.
Ping
oFF Field Jackie #1...and Steve Garbage doesn’t deserve to be on the list...
It tilts a little towards the modern/contemproary.
Only 6 are primarily Brooklyn players. Seven are pitchers. A few are non-players (either managers such as Lasorda and Alston or executives such as O’Malley (who is still hated in Brooklyn) and Rickey, or the great Vin Scully, who began in Brooklyn.)
There are other Brooklyn Dodgers who could arguably make the list, such as Zack Wheat for one, or Pistol Pete Reiser or Carl Furillo or Johnny Podres. Many of the people on that 1955 team.
I think the only team that would have about as difficult a time picking a top 20 would be the Yankees. After Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, and Jeter, there are so many choices.
No Jeff Hamilton?
Larry Sherry and Wally Moon belong on the list. In 1959, their names were household words in the Southland.