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The 20 greatest Dodgers of all time, No. 1: Sandy Koufax
We recently asked you to list your choices for the 10 greatest Dodgers of all time, and vote you did, as we received an amazing 12,231 ballots. So many people voted that we have decided to expand the list from the top 10 to the top 20. Each weekday at...
Tags: Baseball, Sports, Los Angeles Dodgers, Dwayne Johnson, World Series
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Bottom of the Ninth
Tom Girardi woke up at 5:30 a.m. on April 1. As always, he had a lot on his mind. But today, he also had a heavy heart. It was Opening Day of the Los Angeles Dodgers 2013 season, a celebration the former aspiring big league baseball player used to revel...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Dodger Stadium, San Francisco Giants, Bankruptcy
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Vin Scully is the true voice of Los Angeles
My young colleague, Ben Welsh, who hails from Swisher, Iowa, by way of Columbia, Mo., and Washington, D.C., quickly caught on to what we native Angelenos know subliminally. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Scully: A May 14 Op-Ed about Vin Scully said...
Tags: Summer Olympics, Trips and Vacations, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Piracy, Sports
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Baseball is diamond in the rough to black players at Gardena Serra
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon on a cluttered street in Gardena, some very big and skilled athletes are hanging out on a concrete basketball court, bouncing around underneath rusted backboards and chain nets, acting out a typical inner-city scene, with...
Tags: Tennis, Sports, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball, Basketball
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Letters: Fans want a new Blue, all right
Check any correct answer to the following question: What is 42? a) the number worn by Jackie Robinson when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. b) a movie about Robinson's courage in breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947. c) the number of...
Tags: Los Angeles Lakers, Adrian Gonzalez, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Don Mattingly, National Basketball Association
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Tribeca 2013: In 'Trials of Muhammad Ali,' a counterpoint to '42'
NEW YORK--When a championship boxer like Muhammad Ali felt disrespected by another fighter, he might have been expected to do what most boxers would: knock his opponent's lights out. But the icon took a different route when faced with a rival he...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Separation of Church and State, Entertainment, Trials, Martin Luther King Jr.
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The 20 greatest Dodgers of all time, No. 17: Branch Rickey
Beginning April 11, we asked you to list your choices for the 10 greatest Dodgers of all time. You could vote via comment, Facebook, Twitter or email. And vote you did. From then until April 21, when voting closed, we received an amazing 12,231 ballots....
Tags: Baseball, Voting, Sports, Los Angeles Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals
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Tom Cruise proves his box-office worth with No. 1 'Oblivion'
After suffering a couple of box-office disappointments, Tom Cruise posted his first No. 1 film opening in years at the multiplex this weekend. The 50-year-old's science fiction flick "Oblivion" was the only new movie to hit theaters this weekend and...
Tags: Oblivion (movie), Jack Reacher (movie), Sports, Entertainment, Tom Cruise
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Allan Graf's latest sport? Stunts in movies
It may seem surprising that Allan Graf — the baseball coordinator, stunt coordinator and second-unit director for Warner Bros.' Jackie Robinson biographical drama "42" — first made his name on the gridiron. But that's precisely why Graf was...
Tags: Chicago Bears, College Baseball, Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Los Angeles Dodgers
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Take a chance on Terrence Malick's 'To the Wonder'
It feels as if we've hit a major movie slump. So much this year has disappointed. I wasn't entranced with Danny Boyle's crime thriller "Trance." "42," Brian Helgeland's new drama based on baseball great Jackie Robinson's historic defiance of racial...
Tags: Danny Boyle, Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, To the Wonder (movie), Spring Breakers (movie)
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'Hank Greenberg' reveals resilience of early baseball legend
The game of baseball seemed grandly American in the 1930s. Players had cherubic names — Birdie and Schoolboy, sounding like characters from a Broadway musical. Beneath the good times, though, breathed an awful hatred. In his new book, "Hank...
Tags: Baseball, Spring Training, Discrimination, Broadway Theater, Sports
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Baseball books cover the bases
George Plimpton knew the score. A generation or so ago, the late Paris Review editor developed what he called the "Small Ball Theory" of sports writing, which posits "a correlation between the standard of writing about a particular sport and the ball it...
Tags: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Antitrust Issues, College Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Sports
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