I grew up in L.A. in the 1950s, and I remember the Dodgers coming to L.A. from N.Y. I saw a few Dodgers games when they played at the Coliseum (for old guys like me, do you remember the high left field screen/fence?). Those were great times: Gil Hodges; Sandy Koufax; Duke Snider; Don Demeter; Wally Moon; Ron Fairly; Charlie Neal; just to name a few.
257’ down the left-field line, 440’ to right-center. The first time Willie Mays saw that, he exclaimed, “What did they do to you, Duke?”
Loved my Brooklyn Dodgers.
Always wanted to be on Happy Felton’s Knothole Gang...never got there.
Once they moved, they were dead to me.
As long as I cared about baseball, I never rooted for that team from LA.
I remember that and Don Drysdale rookie Frank Howard too.
...Drysdale, Peronoski, Sherry, Roseboro, Gilliam...man, those were good times. My first major league game was in 1959 when we defeated the White Sox. Also saw the Reds, Braves and Giants. Wally Moon made a living fading a 9 iron like fly over the left field screen batting left handed on a regular basis. Saw Frank Torre of the Braves silence a drunk heckler behind the screen with a wicked liner into the screen for a double that would have hit the heckler if the screen hadn’t been there. Used to have a crystal radio set as a boy and would listen to Vin and Jerry on KFI when I was supposed to be asleep. Maybe that’s why I got such poor grades in school? Nah!