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    Bill Plaschke: It's time Dodgers finally honor their all-time greats the right way

    by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times May 03, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_This week the Mexican Baseball League announced it is retiring Fernando Valenzuela's legendary number 34.

    Yet the Dodgers will not.

    The San Diego Padres have long since retired Steve Garvey's iconic number 6 in honor of his five seasons there.

    Yet the Dodgers, where Garvey played 14 years including the bulk of his 1,207 consecutive games, will not.

    The New York Mets have retired Gil Hodges' number 14 in memory of the four years he managed there.

    Yet the Dodgers, where Hodges starred for 16 years in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, will not.

    By now it's pretty clear the Dodgers have a numbers problem. In an era when their fan connection has grown tenuous with the television blackout, during a time when

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