BASEBALL NOTES

By BILL PLASCHKE

Dec. 9, 1991 12 AM PT

In some ways, outfielder Kal Daniels has already left the Dodgers.

He has removed all of his clothes from his Glendale-area home. He has placed his car in a moving van.

He has returned to his hometown, in Warner Robins, Ga., to wait, and hope, for the trade.

“Yeah, Fred Claire (Dodger executive vice president) asked me to play first base, and yeah, I told him I would give it my best shot,” Daniels said during the weekend. “But I asked him to try and trade me first. I think I can still play the outfield. Somewhere.”

Daniels laughed. “I think first base was just a passing thought for Fred,” he said. “I don’t think Fred was serious.”

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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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