6 Stories
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 The popcorn was still popping as All Ball settled in Saturday night for Game 1 of the Dodgers-Padres National League Division Series. And before I could shove the first handful of hot corn in my mouth, the Dodgers were already down 3-0. Even though the Dodgers were the home team by […]
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 […]
by Kevin Cody Gustavo Zermeno Jr. was rushing to complete his mural of Dodgers Shohei Ohtani, and Kings Drew Doughty, and Dustin Brown Tuesday afternoon before the rain came. But it wasn’t easy because every few minutes passersby would stop him for selfies, which the affable artist never said no to. Zermeno had been working […]