Bernie Sanders is on a crusade to save 42 minor league baseball teams
Bernie Sanders called. He was talking baseball, and you could hear the passion. The Los Angeles Dodgers were his team when he grew up in Brooklyn, watching Jackie Robinson play. He did not want to talk about whether Clayton Kershaw might finally win a World Series, or whether the Dodgers should pay up for Gerrit Cole or Anthony Rendon.
The Dodgers are not his team anymore. They broke his heart when they moved to Los Angeles.
He was 16. There was nothing he could do about it.
The pain of a community losing its team still resonates with him, decades later. He was the mayor of Burlington, Vt., in 1984 when the city landed a minor league team. When he learned last month that major league owners wanted to kill the team, he could do
