On Saturday night a Dodger Stadium, a ceremony decades in the making finally happened. After being posthumously elected to baseball’s Hall-of-Fame this past December, the Dodgers retired Gil Hodges’ number 14.
Hodges finally earning the nod from Hall-of-Fame voters opened the door for him to join the likes of Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, and Sandy Koufax, and others, as players to have their numbers retired. The organization has an unwritten rule that that players must make it to Cooperstown in order to get their number retired.
Our Dodgers Nation team was in attendance for the celebratory evening and had a chance to talk to Dodgers team historian Mark Langill about why it took Cooperstown so long to recognize Hodges.