
Mis-Management 101: The American League Expansion for 1961
A chronicle of the mismanagement of the 1961 American League…

"Never Make the Same Mistake Once: Remembering USC Baseball Coach Rod Dedeaux`
A look at the innovative style of legendary University of Southern…

Greater Los Angeles Area Colleges: Major League Mass-Production
A brief overview of Southern California University baseball programs,…

Lamentation: California Angels, October 1986
Lamenting the Angels' 1986 playoff loss.
Lamenting the Angels'…

Baseball at Sepulveda Dam: One Afternoon, Three Hall of Famers
One day in May 1973, on one large field out in the San Fernando…

Jimmie Reese: The Career and the Man
The life of Jimmie Reese as described by Tom Willman, journalist…

The Sandlot Mentors of Los Angeles
This article presents those little known but important men who…

Manzanar: Family, Friends, and Desert Diamonds Behind Barbed Wire
The irony of baseball behind barbed wire was that Japanese Americans…

Post-Cooperstown Post Modernism: The Baseball Reliquary and the Future of Nostalgia
Just what is the Baseball Reliquary, anyway? There are as many…

Los Chorizeros: The New York Yankees of East Los Angeles and the Reclaiming of Mexican American Baseball History
Los Chorizeros baseball played an essential role in the life…

A Whole New Franchise: Creating the 1961 Los Angeles Angels in 120 Days
Roland Hemond has worked in Organized Baseball since 1951, when…
