All that is left is winning a World Series

Why do people become fans of a certain team. For myself, at first glance, it was totally due to location. I grew up in Los Angeles and thus became a fan of the Dodgers, Lakers and Rams. But my path to being a Dodger fan wasn’t something that happened right away.

I do believe the first time I learned anything about baseball, it was from a book. It could have been a biography of the first five players inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Or a baseball children’s book by Matt Christopher that I checked out of my local library.

All of that reading made me a baseball fan before I went to my first game at Dodger Stadium in summer of 1972. By then, I am sure I was listening to Vin Scully and Jerry…