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I just heard about this myself, RIP. I read two of the books he wrote after his career ended, and they were really fun reads. Some good stories about how he and Jerry Reuss would terrorize Tommy Lasorda.
Also had a great cameo to kick off the classic Angels-Mariners game on "The Naked Gun."

I just heard about this myself, RIP. I read two of the books he wrote after his career ended, and they were really fun reads. Some good stories about how he and Jerry Reuss would terrorize Tommy Lasorda.
Also had a great cameo to kick off the classic Angels-Mariners game on "The Naked Gun."

I just heard about this myself, RIP. I read two of the books he wrote after his career ended, and they were really fun reads. Some good stories about how he and Jerry Reuss would terrorize Tommy Lasorda.
Also had a great cameo to kick off the classic Angels-Mariners game on "The Naked Gun."

When first managed the Angels, Reggie Jackson was on the team, and there was a story about when Mac was Reggie's manager earlier in Birmingham. Reggie recounted the story in his Hall of Fame speech:
RIP, Mr. McNamara

When first managed the Angels, Reggie Jackson was on the team, and there was a story about when Mac was Reggie's manager earlier in Birmingham. Reggie recounted the story in his Hall of Fame speech:
RIP, Mr. McNamara

When first managed the Angels, Reggie Jackson was on the team, and there was a story about when Mac was Reggie's manager earlier in Birmingham. Reggie recounted the story in his Hall of Fame speech:
RIP, Mr. McNamara

Remember our friend who likes to write the occasional anti-Angels rant? Well, he seems to be in a little trouble:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889mzp/la-times-places-columnist-arash-markazi-on-leave-amid-plagiarism-investigation

Remember our friend who likes to write the occasional anti-Angels rant? Well, he seems to be in a little trouble:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889mzp/la-times-places-columnist-arash-markazi-on-leave-amid-plagiarism-investigation

Remember our friend who likes to write the occasional anti-Angels rant? Well, he seems to be in a little trouble:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889mzp/la-times-places-columnist-arash-markazi-on-leave-amid-plagiarism-investigation

Remember our friend who likes to write the occasional anti-Angels rant? Well, he seems to be in a little trouble:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889mzp/la-times-places-columnist-arash-markazi-on-leave-amid-plagiarism-investigation

Remember our friend who likes to write the occasional anti-Angels rant? Well, he seems to be in a little trouble:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889mzp/la-times-places-columnist-arash-markazi-on-leave-amid-plagiarism-investigation

And then here's this genius replying to Rosenthal's original tweet and solidifying the Trumpster stereotype. The Twitter universe is sufficiently taking him out behind the woodshed (BTW, Moreno's birthplace: Tucson, Arizona) :
 

https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever
Great story on the near-move of the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) to L.A. after the 1941 season. The move was pretty much a done deal and the AL owners would have rubber-stamped it in a meeting scheduled for Dec. 8, 1941. Well, something happened on Dec. 7, 1941, the meeting was canceled, the country had to deal with that pesky little thing called World War II, and the Browns stayed in St. Louis for 12 more years.
The writer speculates how team relocations and expansion would have happened with a team already in L.A. through the 1940s and '50s. Among the more interesting results include teams like the Dallas Dodgers, San Francisco Athletics and Minnesota Giants.
I heard about this almost-move a few years ago and always speculated about what would have happened later. For one thing, the author has the 1942 L.A. team retaining the Browns name, but I personally think they would changed it to one of the PCL nicknames, Angels or Stars, and the NL expansion team that came later in the story would have taken the other one.
Still, it's fun to think of the possibility of a Southern California landscape where the Angels possibly have an 80-year history and no Dodgers team.

https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever
Great story on the near-move of the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) to L.A. after the 1941 season. The move was pretty much a done deal and the AL owners would have rubber-stamped it in a meeting scheduled for Dec. 8, 1941. Well, something happened on Dec. 7, 1941, the meeting was canceled, the country had to deal with that pesky little thing called World War II, and the Browns stayed in St. Louis for 12 more years.
The writer speculates how team relocations and expansion would have happened with a team already in L.A. through the 1940s and '50s. Among the more interesting results include teams like the Dallas Dodgers, San Francisco Athletics and Minnesota Giants.
I heard about this almost-move a few years ago and always speculated about what would have happened later. For one thing, the author has the 1942 L.A. team retaining the Browns name, but I personally think they would changed it to one of the PCL nicknames, Angels or Stars, and the NL expansion team that came later in the story would have taken the other one.
Still, it's fun to think of the possibility of a Southern California landscape where the Angels possibly have an 80-year history and no Dodgers team.

https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever
Great story on the near-move of the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) to L.A. after the 1941 season. The move was pretty much a done deal and the AL owners would have rubber-stamped it in a meeting scheduled for Dec. 8, 1941. Well, something happened on Dec. 7, 1941, the meeting was canceled, the country had to deal with that pesky little thing called World War II, and the Browns stayed in St. Louis for 12 more years.
The writer speculates how team relocations and expansion would have happened with a team already in L.A. through the 1940s and '50s. Among the more interesting results include teams like the Dallas Dodgers, San Francisco Athletics and Minnesota Giants.
I heard about this almost-move a few years ago and always speculated about what would have happened later. For one thing, the author has the 1942 L.A. team retaining the Browns name, but I personally think they would changed it to one of the PCL nicknames, Angels or Stars, and the NL expansion team that came later in the story would have taken the other one.
Still, it's fun to think of the possibility of a Southern California landscape where the Angels possibly have an 80-year history and no Dodgers team.

https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever
Great story on the near-move of the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) to L.A. after the 1941 season. The move was pretty much a done deal and the AL owners would have rubber-stamped it in a meeting scheduled for Dec. 8, 1941. Well, something happened on Dec. 7, 1941, the meeting was canceled, the country had to deal with that pesky little thing called World War II, and the Browns stayed in St. Louis for 12 more years.
The writer speculates how team relocations and expansion would have happened with a team already in L.A. through the 1940s and '50s. Among the more interesting results include teams like the Dallas Dodgers, San Francisco Athletics and Minnesota Giants.
I heard about this almost-move a few years ago and always speculated about what would have happened later. For one thing, the author has the 1942 L.A. team retaining the Browns name, but I personally think they would changed it to one of the PCL nicknames, Angels or Stars, and the NL expansion team that came later in the story would have taken the other one.
Still, it's fun to think of the possibility of a Southern California landscape where the Angels possibly have an 80-year history and no Dodgers team.

https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever
Great story on the near-move of the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) to L.A. after the 1941 season. The move was pretty much a done deal and the AL owners would have rubber-stamped it in a meeting scheduled for Dec. 8, 1941. Well, something happened on Dec. 7, 1941, the meeting was canceled, the country had to deal with that pesky little thing called World War II, and the Browns stayed in St. Louis for 12 more years.
The writer speculates how team relocations and expansion would have happened with a team already in L.A. through the 1940s and '50s. Among the more interesting results include teams like the Dallas Dodgers, San Francisco Athletics and Minnesota Giants.
I heard about this almost-move a few years ago and always speculated about what would have happened later. For one thing, the author has the 1942 L.A. team retaining the Browns name, but I personally think they would changed it to one of the PCL nicknames, Angels or Stars, and the NL expansion team that came later in the story would have taken the other one.
Still, it's fun to think of the possibility of a Southern California landscape where the Angels possibly have an 80-year history and no Dodgers team.

https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever
Great story on the near-move of the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) to L.A. after the 1941 season. The move was pretty much a done deal and the AL owners would have rubber-stamped it in a meeting scheduled for Dec. 8, 1941. Well, something happened on Dec. 7, 1941, the meeting was canceled, the country had to deal with that pesky little thing called World War II, and the Browns stayed in St. Louis for 12 more years.
The writer speculates how team relocations and expansion would have happened with a team already in L.A. through the 1940s and '50s. Among the more interesting results include teams like the Dallas Dodgers, San Francisco Athletics and Minnesota Giants.
I heard about this almost-move a few years ago and always speculated about what would have happened later. For one thing, the author has the 1942 L.A. team retaining the Browns name, but I personally think they would changed it to one of the PCL nicknames, Angels or Stars, and the NL expansion team that came later in the story would have taken the other one.
Still, it's fun to think of the possibility of a Southern California landscape where the Angels possibly have an 80-year history and no Dodgers team.

https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever
Great story on the near-move of the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) to L.A. after the 1941 season. The move was pretty much a done deal and the AL owners would have rubber-stamped it in a meeting scheduled for Dec. 8, 1941. Well, something happened on Dec. 7, 1941, the meeting was canceled, the country had to deal with that pesky little thing called World War II, and the Browns stayed in St. Louis for 12 more years.
The writer speculates how team relocations and expansion would have happened with a team already in L.A. through the 1940s and '50s. Among the more interesting results include teams like the Dallas Dodgers, San Francisco Athletics and Minnesota Giants.
I heard about this almost-move a few years ago and always speculated about what would have happened later. For one thing, the author has the 1942 L.A. team retaining the Browns name, but I personally think they would changed it to one of the PCL nicknames, Angels or Stars, and the NL expansion team that came later in the story would have taken the other one.
Still, it's fun to think of the possibility of a Southern California landscape where the Angels possibly have an 80-year history and no Dodgers team.

Yep, the words "Tommy John" sure had a different meaning to us Angels fans in the mid-'80s than it does now.
It's been kind of cool to see certain players again in an Angels uniforms. "Oh, yeah, Dante Bichette and Devon White started out with the Halos." "Ah, now I remember when Claudell Washington and Johnny Ray played for us."
I noticed in tonight's game (Langston/Witt no-hitter), when Edgar Martinez made the error on the grounder that would have loaded the bases with no out, except Bichette overran third and the shortstop backing up tagged him out. You could see Moose Stubing barking at him as Dante was on his way back to the dugout. I think that was one of many brain farts committed by a young Bichette that made the Angels cut bait on him after the season ended.

For the Angels, probably Tanana or Richards as stated before. If Tanana hadn't had his arm problems, he might have mitigated the idiotic decision to let Nolan Ryan walk after 1979. With Richards, I wonder if that freak knee injury in 2014 was a factor in his arm problems later (sometimes you might change mechanics to offset effects of another injury and it affect your arm later); without that he might still be our ace or close to it.
One non-Angel who hasn't been mentioned is J.R. Richard. He was very dominant with the Astros in the late 1970s and then suffered a stroke in 1980 that effectively ended his career. If he had his health, he could have been like the right-handed Randy Johnson (or Johnson would have been known as the left-handed J.R. Richard when he hit his prime) and could have been a Hall-of-Famer.

For the Angels, probably Tanana or Richards as stated before. If Tanana hadn't had his arm problems, he might have mitigated the idiotic decision to let Nolan Ryan walk after 1979. With Richards, I wonder if that freak knee injury in 2014 was a factor in his arm problems later (sometimes you might change mechanics to offset effects of another injury and it affect your arm later); without that he might still be our ace or close to it.
One non-Angel who hasn't been mentioned is J.R. Richard. He was very dominant with the Astros in the late 1970s and then suffered a stroke in 1980 that effectively ended his career. If he had his health, he could have been like the right-handed Randy Johnson (or Johnson would have been known as the left-handed J.R. Richard when he hit his prime) and could have been a Hall-of-Famer.

For the Angels, probably Tanana or Richards as stated before. If Tanana hadn't had his arm problems, he might have mitigated the idiotic decision to let Nolan Ryan walk after 1979. With Richards, I wonder if that freak knee injury in 2014 was a factor in his arm problems later (sometimes you might change mechanics to offset effects of another injury and it affect your arm later); without that he might still be our ace or close to it.
One non-Angel who hasn't been mentioned is J.R. Richard. He was very dominant with the Astros in the late 1970s and then suffered a stroke in 1980 that effectively ended his career. If he had his health, he could have been like the right-handed Randy Johnson (or Johnson would have been known as the left-handed J.R. Richard when he hit his prime) and could have been a Hall-of-Famer.

I don't know how many of you caught it, but while Darin Erstad was manning center field (and catching the final out) in the Game 7 replay on FSW, he was also punting for the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the NBC Sports Network replay of the 1995 Orange Bowl. Huskers beat Miami 24-17 in that one to win the first of back-to-back national titles.

I don't know how many of you caught it, but while Darin Erstad was manning center field (and catching the final out) in the Game 7 replay on FSW, he was also punting for the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the NBC Sports Network replay of the 1995 Orange Bowl. Huskers beat Miami 24-17 in that one to win the first of back-to-back national titles.