In today’s episode of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to “Third base Dodger Stadium”, performed by Ry Cooder and sung by James “Bla” Pahinui. The song is about a Mexican-American community that was destroyed for the sake of building Dodger Stadium. Before Dodger Stadium was built, Chavez Ravine was home to a Mexican-American community….
During my vacation in the US, earlier this year, my good friend Javier took me to Dodger Stadium for a tour. It is hard to believe that Dodger Stadium, erected in 1962, is the third oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball. It is a ballpark without the modern bells and whistles in which baseball fans…
I wrote the following piece for my monthly colum in the Cuban baseball magazine Universo Beisbol. In this piece I want to share my point of view on the move of the Dodgers to Los Angeles. Over the years, the LA press and especially the O’Malley family have re-written history in favour of Walter O’Malley….
