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S a kid growing up in Glendale in the late 60's, a trip to Dodger Stadium was almost as exciting as a trip to Disneyland. Back then my heroes were The Beatles, The Monkees, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. My parents took us to a few Angels games when the park in Anaheim first opened, and I remember being a fan of Jim Fregosi, but it was such a long and tedious trip on the freeway to Anaheim and back from where we lived. More importantly, though, I could never get used to all that red. The red Angels uniforms reminded me of Cincinnati. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't root for red over blue.During my first year of college I still lived at home and I used to stagger out of bed in the morning and grab the sports page from my dad and look at the box scores before I even had coffee. I was obsessed, which might have seemed a bit incongruous to my parents, given that I was a 19-year-old girl majoring in English and also fond of the poetry of Sylvia Plath.
… I remember being at the park and seeing Davey Lopes stealing third base, running so hard that his helmet flew off in the opposite direction like a shiny blue bird taking off from his head. I remember the heart-breaking losses to the Yankees in the World Series that I literally cried over. I remember Bob Welch versus Reggie Jackson, the tension so thick that my entire family stood in front of the television, unable to sit still. But more than anything else, my memories are of sitting in the stands next to my late father, the smell of Dodger Dogs, the "three sisters" palm trees in the sunset, the retro-cool Tomorrowland roof over the outfield pavilions, and Vin Scully's voice. As tough as things are for my team now, it's Scully's voice that still keeps me connected to those days long ago, and gives me hope that someday we'll get our team back.
Cynthia Tyler, Pasadena, Calif.
t was a summer afternoon in 1989 or 1990 when my father, exasperated and in need of some relief in the babysitting department, sat me down in front of the TV. Sitting there and listening to Vin Scully as a 6- or 7-year-old, I was drawn to the game (of course, I did not understand it. When Scully said "at the end of 4, Dodgers 1, Giants nothing," I interpreted that to mean "Dodgers won," so I left the TV). It wasn't until a few years later that my grandfather taught me to read a box score. I fell in love with baseball in 1994 when Mike Piazza , Raul Mondesi and Eric Karros led the team. I was enamored with the team's potential and did not realize their flaws.
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