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Three-time MLB Executive of the Year and longtime SABR member Roland Hemond reflects on a time 50 years ago, when a singing cowboy bought the rights to the new American League franchise in Los Angeles.

The experiences of 17-year-old Jeane Hoffman as she worked out of the press box at Wrigley Field, home of the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League.

Mislabeling all winter baseball played in California as “California Winter League” ignores the uneven color lines that existed in that time and place.

The history of the Pirates in Paso Robles from 1924-1934.

The cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles have always been rivals. In 1947 the rivalry coalesced around their Pacific Coast League entries—the San Francisco Seals and the Los Angeles Angels.

Fred Girard Haney touched all the bases in a 65-year baseball career that led him from athletic stardom in high school to the general manager’s office of the Los Angeles Angels.

Long before the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and the Angels sprang into being three years later, professional baseball and its rivalries had been a central part of the Southern California sports scene.

The history of Wrigley Field is intermingled with that of the city of Los Angeles. It hosted the fiercest rivalry in minor league baseball between the Pacific Coast League (PCL) Angels and Hollywood Stars as well as other baseball, boxing, football, high school and a myriad of community events.

History of the eight Pacific Coast League Ballparks in the Los Angeles area. 

Kim Ng's ascension in baseball operations through the Dodgers' organization. 

A look at the Dodger way of scouting, tracing its roots back to Branch Rickey. 

The story of Fernando Valenzuela and Fernandomania.

An appreciation of longtime Dodgers announcer Vin Scully.

Highlights of the Dodgers' days in L.A. Memorial Coliseum. 

An explanation of why Walter O'Malley was right in his decision to move the Dodgers to the West Coast.

A poem about the Dodgers and Oakland A's in June 2009.

Long before the Dodgers spied the bright lights and greener pastures of the West Coast, baseball and Hollywood brought together ballplayers and actors gladly willing to exchange hats for the "Hollywood Stars" game.

The history of Hollywood Stars at Dodgers' Stadium. 

Tale of the creation of Home Run Derby.

Chronicle of women featured in baseball movies.

A poem about the Dodgers' relocation.

Buster Keaton's journey as a physical athlete starring in silent cinema.

A Biography of Buck Rodgers and his journey to Anaheim. 

From the mid-1970s until the Angels won the World Series in 2002, frequent stories of an Angels “curse” or “jinx” appeared in the local and national media.

A history of the friendship of Bo Belinsky and Dean Chance.

A chronicle of the mismanagement of the 1961 American League expansion draft.

A look at the innovative style of legendary University of Southern California baseball coach Rod Dedeaux.

A brief overview of Southern California University baseball programs, and their major league products. 

Lamenting the Angels' 1986 playoff loss.

One day in May 1973, on one large field out in the San Fernando Valley, four baseball games were played simultaneously. In those games, three future Hall of Famers were on the field, with seven other future major leaguers also taking part.

The life of Jimmie Reese as described by Tom Willman, journalist and friend.

This article presents those little known but important men who helped to launch so many players from the sandlots of Los Angeles to baseball stardom. 

The irony of baseball behind barbed wire was that Japanese Americans were considered enemy aliens and confined to camps during World War II. Donning a baseball uniform, however, gave them free passage to road trips.

Just what is the Baseball Reliquary, anyway? There are as many answers to that question as there are multitudes contained by Walt Whitman, the Brooklyn-based author of Leaves of Grass and the first American artist to embrace the game and assimilate it into his poetic vocabulary.

Los Chorizeros baseball played an essential role in the life of the Mexican American community of East Los Angeles.