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Afterword

Larry Jansen, Dodgers nemesis

By Claire Noland
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If you’re a Dodger fan who covers your ears whenever you hear Russ Hodges scream ‘The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!’ raise your hand. And whatever you do, DON’T click here if you don’t want to hear one more time about Bobby Thomson’s Shot Heard ‘Round the World.

It doesn’t matter if you weren’t even alive in 1951 and never saw the Brooklyn Dodgers play.

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Larry Jansen, the New York Giants pitcher who won the playoff game that eliminated the Brooklyn Dodgers from the 1951 postseason, died Oct. 10 in Oregon. After his playing days ended, he was a pitching coach for the Giants in New York and after their move to San Francisco.

And, for an example of old-time sportswriting, check out The Times’ game story from Oct. 4, 1951, here.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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