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Baseball at Sepulveda Dam: One Afternoon, Three Hall of Famers

By Bob Timmermann

Since Southern California is one of the major sources of baseball talent today, few if any of the top prospects ever go unnoticed by the media now. But on 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. Only one suburban newspaper took significant note of the goings-on, but even they could not have guessed at . . .

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