Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers Sherman Erik
Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers Sherman Erik Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day…
Specifikacia Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers Sherman Erik
Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers Sherman Erik
Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day starting pitcher in 1981. He became an instant icon, and his superlative rookie season produced Cy Young and rookie of the year awards--and a World Series victory over the Yankees.Forty years later, there hasn't been a player since that created as many Dodgers fans. Born in the remote Mexican town of Etchohuaquila, the left-hander had moved to the United States less than two years before.
Mexican Americans had been forced to leave their homes in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles--some forcibly--for well below market value so the city could sell the land to team owner Walter O'Malley for a new stadium. Since the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles from Brooklyn in the late 1950s, relations were badly strained between the organization and the Latin world. For a generation of working-class Mexican