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Spotlight: Hermosa Beach Little Leaguers will celebrate Opening Day on Saturday, March 1, with the traditional running of the bases. The celebration begins at 9 a.m. at Clark Field, 861 Valley Drive. For details, visit HermosaBaseball.com. Thursday, February 27 Visit from the Holy Spirit Through Saturday, March 1, experience the presence of God through […]
by Paul Teetor He’s baaaack! The most wanted man in Los Angeles was finally caught by the Dodgers. Teoscar Hernandez, the sunflower seed spitting, clutch hit slugging outfielder who played such a vital role in the Dodgers march to a World Series championship this past season, signed a three-year contract Friday night to return to […]
by Paul Teetor Overview: It’s been an incredible year for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers, and they are still – justifiably – celebrating their World Series win six weeks after the last Yankee struck out. For nearly everyone else in the LA sports scene, not so much. We lost two all-time greats of the hardwood […]
by Paul Teetor Yaahh! The Dodgers won the World Series! Yaahh for the hometown team. Let’s have a big parade and revel in how great our team is! And indeed, the Dodgers are great – they’re the deepest and best team in all of Major League Baseball. But All Ball’s journalistic keep-it-real mission statement compels […]
by Paul Teetor Sure, Freddie Freeman will be remembered forever by Dodgers fans and a whole lot of other people for his walk-off grand slam homer that won game one of the World Series against the Yankees Friday night in extra innings. It was a magnificent achievement by a guy who was playing on a […]
by Paul Teetor Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Kirk Gibson and …. Tommy Edman? Yep, that’s a list of Dodger postseason hitting greats who carried their teams to memorable triumphs. Wait – Tommy who? That would be Tommy Edman, a utility player the Dodgers picked up from the Saint Louis Cardinals in an under-the-radar move at […]
by Paul Teetor It’s official. Shohei Ohtani is now the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Better than Babe Ruth, better than Ty Cobb, better than Ted Williams, Willie Mays or Joe DiMaggio. Better than anybody you can name in the long, glorious history of major league baseball, which goes back 140 years. Greatest. Of. […]
by Paul Teetor The Dodgers desperately need reinforcements – and the trade deadline is Tuesday afternoon at 3. So by the time you read this you’ll know if they’ve done anything significant to shore up a team that badly needs shoring up. Especially on their pitching staff, but also for the infield and the bottom […]
by Paul Teetor When the famous slugger “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was caught up in the 1919 “Black Sox” World Series game-fixing scandal, a little kid confronted him on the courthouse steps and uttered these immortal words: “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” That’s how All Ball is feeling these days about Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani. I […]