SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
Forty years ago, the Dodgers were the class of baseball. They won the World Series in the strike-shortened 1981 season and had won National League pennants in 1977 and ’78.
Just last year, the Dodgers won the World Series in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, on the heels of NL pennants in 2017 and 2018. Once again, the Dodgers are baseball’s model franchise, winners of last year’s Organization of the Year award. Los Angeles has few peers when it comes to drafting, developing and acquiring championship players. Some things never change.
In the following excerpt from the April 1982 issue of Baseball America, Dodgers beat writer John Lowe of the wonders if the Dodgers of that era had too
