Ogden • The 1968 Ogden Dodgers brawled with opponents, learned baseball from Tommy Lasorda, ate $1.99 buffets before every home game and rallied to win the league championship on the last night of the season.
Fifty years later, having told another round of stories about his summer among the greatest convergence of young talent in Utah pro baseball history, Bobby Valentine concluded, “It was glorious.”
The Affleck Park site is occupied by an auto dealership. The Ogden Raptors play a couple of miles from where the old Dodgers once roamed the field, as they celebrate the reborn franchise’s 25th season – again playing as a Los Angeles Dodgers affiliate in the Pioneer League.