If you’re a Dodgers fan on Twitter, you should be following the always-excellent “Dodger Cards” account (@dodgers_cards), run by Chad Simmons, which provides a ton of useful information including “happy birthday” posts to former Boys in Blue nearly every day. And every once in a while, the sometimes-adequate Jeff Snider (hey, that’s me!) will chime in with some additional information on one of his posts.
Wednesday was one of those days, when Chad tweeted a happy birthday to former Dodger and current Padres announcer Mark Sweeney.
When I saw that tweet from Chad mentioning that Sweeney was the last Dodger to wear number 22 before Clayton Kershaw, I immediately remembered hearing Sweeney himself tell the story.