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Posted on 12/22/2015 3:51:26 PM PST by EveningStar
The Dodgers are finally going the statue route at Dodger Stadium and on Tuesday announced the first would be of Jackie Robinson.
The Dodgers said the statue will be 9 to 10 feet tall and located at a stadium site to be determined during the 2016 season.
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Not Vin Skully?
Gotta be one of Wally (Moon Shot) Moon first............!!!
Their greatest player ever was Koufax. I guess they’re just anti-semitic (sigh).
I am just fine with Jackie Robinson to be the first.
Assuming there will also be others over time, I believe Sandy Koufax was the most dominating pitcher in the game, at his peak.
Ahhh, will he be wearing a BROOKLYN shirt?
Roy Campenella - Over 100,000 fans filled the Coliseum to pay tribute. Campy never played a game there as Dodger.
Walt Alston - Class act, great manager.
Vinnie - nuff said
Tommy - He bleeds Dodger blue
Koufax - Another class act. One of the, if not the best lefty ever.
Rick Monday - With the flag in hand (and yes, he was a Cubby then, but will always be a Dodger
Kirk Gibson - Pumping his arm of course.
Who did I miss?
I'm not. Although he was a Dodger, he was also a Bruin. He played football for UCLA, but the teams he was on never beat the USC Trojans.
I was 9 or 10, grabbed a moon shot HR ball and was in heaven for about three seconds, then some kid; 13 or 14 I guess, grabbed it and took off.
Easy come, easy go.
I’d rather it be of Chick Hearn
Leo Durocher.
He wasn’t that great a player but was a successful manager.
Agreed. I heard a story that as a high school football player he once threw a football out of the Coliseum. Not 100% sure it is true, but that story always stuck with me.
The refrigerator door is closed on that one, the milk's getting cold and the butter is getting hard.
;)
How about missing the obvious...
Steve Garvey and his many children conceived out of wedlock.
Poster boy for government dependency and he’s white, so, not racist.
No one who has ever actually been in the Coliseum could ever imagine anyone even attempting to toss the ol’ oblate spheroid out of it. What Duke actually attempted, and this is well-chronicled and your memory just played a trick on you, is to throw a baseball out. He succeeded: in throwing his arm out.
The Dook has always been my fave, since the '55 Serious, so of course I made it a point to attend his retirement ceremony at the Stadium. It was fabulous: while the announcer introduced him and extolled his many accomplishments, the center field fence opened and Duke walked in, all the way to home plate, flanked by Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio, two of the three other great NY center fielders contemporaneous with Duke's Brooklyn era (I don't know where the Mick was).
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