Bill Plaschke: Hometown hero Justin Turner wore L.A. on sleeve and carried city in heart
LOS ANGELES — He was never their best player. He was never their biggest star.
He never won a batting title. He never scored a Gold Glove. He never signed a historic contract.
It required a mass organized effort to vote him into his first All-Star Game. When his team recorded the final out of his only championship, he wasn't even on the field.
Despite being in the middle of the greatest nine-year stretch in franchise history, Justin Turner was never the most famous, celebrated or accomplished of Dodgers.
But he was the Dodger who signed baseballs for military heroes. He was the Dodger who passed out lunches to children. He was the Dodger who
