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Their service to the game: the Kawano brothers

The Kawano brothers -- Yosh, 94, left, and Nobe, 93 -- were longtime clubhouse managers for the Cubs and Dodgers, respectively, and now live in the same retirement home in Los Angeles. Yosh wears one of the signature hats he wore in the clubhouse.

The Kawano brothers -- Yosh, 94, left, and Nobe, 93 -- were longtime clubhouse managers for the Cubs and Dodgers, respectively, and now live in the same retirement home in Los Angeles. Yosh wears one of the signature hats he wore in the clubhouse.

  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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After a lifetime of tending to the Dodgers and Cubs, former clubhouse managers Nobe and Yosh Kamano are a part of baseball lore.

In his workplace

Nobe Kawano has the Dodgers clubhouse in order for the 1972 season.

  (Art Rogers / Los Angeles Times)

Tools of Dodgers' trade

Nobe Kawano is shown in 1965 with a sampling of the gear that the Dodgers would use. Kawano forged on with the Dodgers until retiring after the 1991 season.

  (Larry Sharkey / Los Angeles Times)

Surveying the field

Yosh Kawano in the dugout in 2002. He retired from the Cubs in 2008, when he was 87.

  (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune )

Season's beginning

Yosh Kawano takes in the action on opening day in 2000 from the Cubs’ dugout.

  (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune )

Seventh-inning stretch

Billy Williams, a former Cubs outfielder who is a member of baseball’s Hall of Fame, and Yosh Kawano lead the singing of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”in 2008.

  (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)

Welcoming a slugger

Cubs star Sammy Sosa, arriving for spring training, hugs Yosh Kawano in 1999.

  (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune )

A Kawano trademark

One of Yosh Kawano’s signature hats is seen in a display at baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 2014.

  (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

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