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BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : NATIONAL LEAGUE : Bonds Issues a Challenge to Opposing Baserunners

By BILL PLASCHKE
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The Dodgers, who upset many baseball people with their comments during the NL West race, improved their image considerably by taking out a quarter-page ad in Wednesday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution congratulating the Braves on their championship.

“We congratulate the Atlanta Braves and their fans on a great season,” the ad read. “Best of luck in the National League Championship Series! Los Angeles Dodgers.”

The Dodgers earlier purchased ads in the Miami Herald and Denver Post congratulating those cities on obtaining National League expansion franchises.

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“When something good happens to somebody else in baseball, we like to recognize it,” said Fred Claire, Dodger vice president. “In the case of the Braves, we just thought it was the appropriate thing to do.”

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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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