A Perfect Dodger Game, Minus the Dodgers

For One Weekend a Year, High School Baseball Gets Its Moment on L.A.’s Biggest Sporting Stage

There’s very little iconography around high school baseball games. They lack the under-the-lights, cheerleaders-and-band spectacle of high school football. They have little of the noise and intensity of high school basketball played in the home gym. They are often small events, quiet and pastoral, played on out-of-the-way fields sprinkled with the players’ families and close friends. No one is painted head-to-toe in school colors.

But in Los Angeles, for one weekend a year, high school baseball gets its moment on our biggest sporting stage: Dodger Stadium. Some of the final games …

The Lonely Life of an L.A. Sports Fan

For Decades, Rooting for Southern California’s Teams Was Painful and Even Lonely—but I Persevered

A Los Angeles radio sportscaster who billed himself as “Super Fan” used to end his broadcasts saying, “In the department store of life, sports is in the toy section.” That’s …

Married at Home Plate and Missing the Dodgers

Like 70 Percent of Southern Californians, I’m Being Denied My Dodger Telecasts. I’m Taking It Personally.

Newly engaged, I was on a plane to baseball spring training when I picked up my very first bridal magazine. Inside, I came across the news (to me) that Dodger …

Samsung, Hyundai … Ryu

Korea’s Quality Imports Now Include Baseball Players Used to Impassioned Fans

Tuesday night marked an important milestone in L.A.-Korea ties. When Hyun-jin Ryu took the mound at Dodger Stadium to pitch against the San Francisco Giants, he became the first professional …

Five Urgent Vin Scully Succession Plans

L.A. Must Prepare For Life After the Voice of the Dodgers, Before It’s Too Late

MEMORANDUM

To: The People of Los Angeles
From: The Future
Re: Urgent Need to Deal with Vin Scully Succession

I, The Future, do not typically communicate via memo. But as a Los …

Who’s Gonna Buy the Dodgers?

I Am. Or Else One Of These Other Guys.

I am submitting a bid to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers before it is too late.

Why? Because I have been seeing all those other potential buyers out there looming just …