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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 There was a giant whooshing sound emanating from Chavez Ravine on Thursday morning that soon spread out, like a coastal fog, over all of Los Angeles. It was a collective sigh of relief coming from everyone in the Dodgers organization, plus the millions of new Shohei Ohtani fans who had jumped aboard […]
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 […]