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Canada's baseball heritage is deeper than 15 years of the Expos and seven seasons of the Blue Jays. Before Brooklyn or Los Angeles ever knew of Walter Alston, he managed the Dodgers Triple A team in Montreal, and Jackie Robinson played there in 1946. "Those were happy summers," says Al Campanis, the Montreal shortstop then, the Dodger general manager now. Before Cincinnati or Detroit ever heard of Sparky Anderson, he managed in Toronto. When Toronto grew past the point of accepting the minor leagues of anything, baseball left town for nine years. It returned to a faint...
...Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo., hitting so many batting-practice homers that witnesses now insist the hits were all homers and five of them landed in the upper deck. He was packed off smartly to the minor leagues. The only question: Why had Kittle hit so poorly in the Dodger organization? The answer was that he had a broken neck. That is, without realizing it, he had two crushed vertebrae that pinched a nerve in his neck and numbed his right arm. On his own he underwent a spinal fusion in 1978. How Kittle was injured is still unknown...
...Mickey Owen's dropped third strike in a different Yankee-Dodger Series...
Garvey is the Dodger bat boy who grew up to be the star of the team. For something like $6.6 million over five years, he is now the star of San Diego's team. Cey has joined the Chicago Cubs. While Brock hit home runs last year in Albuquerque, he has a worried look, and the constant mention of Garvey's name is wearing. If that isn't enough, Duke Snider's name is being invoked too, as in "the best power-hitting prospect since Duke Snider." Brock will be lucky if no one brings...
Much more carefree, Marshall is living the California fantasy, a Dodger darling dating the lead singer of the Go-Go's, Belinda Carlisle. "I'm still at the stage where I can get to the car without signing too many autographs," he says amiably. "She's the one who takes a half-hour." Marshall was a sixth-round choice in 1978, Brock a 13th-rounder in 1979. In 1965, Rick Monday was the first pick in the first draft, and he is a utility man yet at 37. "When I was the phenom, everywhere I went...