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BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Morgan Meets Friend for Tee

By BILL PLASCHKE
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Mike Morgan was preparing to tee off at a local course Saturday when a golf cart containing an old friend pulled up behind him.

“Somebody was shouting, ‘M and M, M and M!’ ” Morgan said, referring to his nickname. “I looked up, and there was Fernando Valenzuela.”

Valenzuela, who just happened to be playing in a foursome behind Morgan, visited briefly.

“He looked really good, like he was in better shape than when he left the team in spring training,” said Morgan, who is the first Dodger to see Valenzuela since the left-hander was released. “He told me he is working out every day and staying ready.”

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Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke, an L.A. Times sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame. He has been named national Sports Columnist of the Year nine times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards. He is the author of six books, including a collection of his columns entitled “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.” Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.” He is in the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters Alumni Hall of Fame and has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center. Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.

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