Bill Plaschke: With a Panama hat, cigar and radar gun, scout Mike Brito was a Dodger Stadium fixture
by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
Jul 08, 2022
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES â He was the white Panama hat. He was the radar gun. He was the cigar. He was the heartbeat behind home plate, constant, steady, always standing, always scouting, always there.
For years, Mike Brito was a Dodger Stadium landmark, as unique as a Dodger Dog, as solid as the San Gabriel Mountains, as comforting as a ninth-inning breeze.
You may not have known his name, but you couldn't miss his presence, and a piece of Dodgers history will be forever lost without him.
Brito died Thursday at
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