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To: dennisw
I have nothing against Jackie Robinson but putting his statue there is PC nonsense.
Not at all. Remove Robinson the colour barrier breaker, focus on him strictly as a major league baseball player, and you can make a case that Robinson strictly by the numbers (he might have another one or two seasons to add to them, perhaps, had his knees not begun betraying him in 1955; he was 28 when he came to the Dodgers) may have been the greatest all-around position player (and probably the best middle infielder) in the franchise's history.

As for the next Dodger to get a statue at Dodger Stadium? That's a no-brainer---Koufax.

63 posted on 12/22/2015 10:34:19 PM PST by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: BluesDuke

You know your stuff!!!

But the first LA Dodgers statue should be Don Drysdale...then Sandy Koufax when he passes on


64 posted on 12/22/2015 10:44:46 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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