August 7, 2024 • 4 mins
The Dodgers team historian talks to DV on Sandy Koufax Bobblehead Night.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Sandy Kofax Babo head night at Dodger Stadium and
also Alumni Weekend coming up. And what a better person
to talk to than Dodger team a historian Mark Langel. Mark,
great to see you here at Dodger Stadium. We're all
so happy things are going well with you well.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
David, it's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
And right after you say Alumni Weekend, I immediately think
of Old Timers Day when they called it when I
was a kid in the nineteen seventies and eighties, and
it's still the same premise, no matter the same generation
in terms of what you remember and everything. How cool
that we're going to have all these familiar names coming
back to Dodger Stadium and sharing memories.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Including the all time legend Sandy Kofax. What do you
want to share about him? Because it feels like everybody
just bows at the altar of Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, just imagine, who is a reigning Hall of Famer
for more than a half century. I think people see
the statue, but they don't really know the legend as
far as behind the scenes. He retires when he's thirty
years old, having won twenty seven regular season games in
nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Six of arthritis.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So if you look at all the stats, they say
three times cy Young Award winner. They only gave one
cy Young Award between nineteen fifty six and nineteen sixty six.
And I have a feeling that after Sandy had won three,
they said, you know, we better give one to each league,
otherwise Sandy's going to take them all.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
How much have you shared stories and memories with Sandy
Kofax for him to be in the vault of Mark
Langel's head.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The really nice thing is to be able to know
behind the scenes as far as the perfect game, and
to be able to work with Jane Levy as far
as that wonderful book that he did.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
She did because people just don't understand.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We've been playing baseball since eighteen ninety in the National League.
We've only had one perfect game. September the ninth, nineteen
sixty five. Sandy pitched it. So the greatest pitcher in
our history pitched the only perfect game. And oh, by
the way, Bob Henley of the Chicago Cubs only allowed
one hit and one walk, and the hit had nothing
(01:54):
to do with the scoring, so it could have been
a double no hitter, So that night was just one
of those hitching for the ages. Bob Henley versus Sandy kolfex.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Mark Langel, Dodger team historing is joining us and on
Friday Night, Mark Dusty Baker will be honored. He was
my favorite Dodger growing up. He captured the imagination of
so many young Dodger fans. How special is it finally
to have I guess, not closure, but full circle for
Dusty on Friday.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's definitely full circle because I remember the struggles that
he went through.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
In nineteen seventy six. He hits a home run.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
On Opening Day and then they only hits three more
because he's got knee problems. Tommy Lesorda comes along in
nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I believe in you.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You're my guy, You're my left fielder. And just imagine
you're going into that final week end of the season.
The other three Ron say, Reggie Smith and Steve Garvey
have their thirty home runs and you're gonna face JR.
Richard on Sunday the final regular season game. And my
favorite story from that, Reggie Smith actually called the Houston
dugout in front of Dusty and said, let me talk
(02:56):
to Jr. And he said, I'm gonna He's gonna do
it against you. Dusty's in the background going no, no,
don't say that. Don't say that. And it all comes
down to the final at bat and Dusty remembers Tommy
giving him the Rob Ross speech, something about Moses and
the partying into the Red Sea and to be able
to hit that home run on the last day as
a kid for me, I'm in middle school.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I wanted him to do that so bad.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
And then afterwards for them to be able to all
tip their caps and the first thirty home run quartet
and now it's like Mount Rushmore. They were the first
to do it, and Dodger fans in seventy seven will
never forget that quartet.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
This might be the first time they've been together at
the same place at the same time at Dodger Stadium
in a while.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Absolutely and John Sue, who are a great team photographer
who's been here forever, said he's never shot Dusty in
a Dodger uniform because if you think of it, when
Dusty left, When Dusty leaves in the mid eighties, suddenly
he goes to the Giants.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
He goes to the A's.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
He goes to the Reds and Cubs, and so this
is a great homecoming. Dusty would always participate in pregame
ceremonies if we had a bobblehead or things like that.
But to be able to see Dusty in a Dodger uniform,
it's a wonderful sight. But Dodger fans have to turn
back the clock to the nineteen seventies and early eighties
to actually see Johnny B in a Dodger uniform number
(04:10):
twelve like his boyhood idol.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Tommy Davis can't wait.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's going to be a great alumni weekend. Mark Langel.
We're so happy you're doing well. You're a treasure yourself
to the Dodgers. Thanks a lot for the time, my.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Pleasure, David, Thank you. Always good to be with you,
It's Sandy Kofax Babo head night at Dodger Stadium and
also Alumni Weekend coming up. And what a better person
to talk to than Dodger team a historian Mark Langel. Mark,
great to see you here at Dodger Stadium. We're all
so happy things are going well with you well.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
David, it's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
And right after you say Alumni Weekend, I immediately think
of Old Timers Day when they called it when I
was a kid in the nineteen seventies and eighties, and
it's still the same premise, no matter the same generation
in terms of what you remember and everything. How cool
that we're going to have all these familiar names coming
back to Dodger Stadium and sharing memories.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Including the all time legend Sandy Kofax. What do you
want to share about him? Because it feels like everybody
just bows at the altar of Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, just imagine, who is a reigning Hall of Famer
for more than a half century. I think people see
the statue, but they don't really know the legend as
far as behind the scenes. He retires when he's thirty
years old, having won twenty seven regular season games in
nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Six of arthritis.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So if you look at all the stats, they say
three times cy Young Award winner. They only gave one
cy Young Award between nineteen fifty six and nineteen sixty six.
And I have a feeling that after Sandy had won three,
they said, you know, we better give one to each league,
otherwise Sandy's going to take them all.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
How much have you shared stories and memories with Sandy
Kofax for him to be in the vault of Mark
Langel's head.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The really nice thing is to be able to know
behind the scenes as far as the perfect game, and
to be able to work with Jane Levy as far
as that wonderful book that he did.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
She did because people just don't understand.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We've been playing baseball since eighteen ninety in the National League.
We've only had one perfect game. September the ninth, nineteen
sixty five. Sandy pitched it. So the greatest pitcher in
our history pitched the only perfect game. And oh, by
the way, Bob Henley of the Chicago Cubs only allowed
one hit and one walk, and the hit had nothing
(01:54):
to do with the scoring, so it could have been
a double no hitter, So that night was just one
of those hitching for the ages. Bob Henley versus Sandy kolfex.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Mark Langel, Dodger team historing is joining us and on
Friday Night, Mark Dusty Baker will be honored. He was
my favorite Dodger growing up. He captured the imagination of
so many young Dodger fans. How special is it finally
to have I guess, not closure, but full circle for
Dusty on Friday.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It's definitely full circle because I remember the struggles that
he went through.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
In nineteen seventy six. He hits a home run.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
On Opening Day and then they only hits three more
because he's got knee problems. Tommy Lesorda comes along in
nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I believe in you.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You're my guy, You're my left fielder. And just imagine
you're going into that final week end of the season.
The other three Ron say, Reggie Smith and Steve Garvey
have their thirty home runs and you're gonna face JR.
Richard on Sunday the final regular season game. And my
favorite story from that, Reggie Smith actually called the Houston
dugout in front of Dusty and said, let me talk
(02:56):
to Jr. And he said, I'm gonna He's gonna do
it against you. Dusty's in the background going no, no,
don't say that. Don't say that. And it all comes
down to the final at bat and Dusty remembers Tommy
giving him the Rob Ross speech, something about Moses and
the partying into the Red Sea and to be able
to hit that home run on the last day as
a kid for me, I'm in middle school.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I wanted him to do that so bad.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
And then afterwards for them to be able to all
tip their caps and the first thirty home run quartet
and now it's like Mount Rushmore. They were the first
to do it, and Dodger fans in seventy seven will
never forget that quartet.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
This might be the first time they've been together at
the same place at the same time at Dodger Stadium
in a while.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Absolutely and John Sue, who are a great team photographer
who's been here forever, said he's never shot Dusty in
a Dodger uniform because if you think of it, when
Dusty left, When Dusty leaves in the mid eighties, suddenly
he goes to the Giants.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
He goes to the A's.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
He goes to the Reds and Cubs, and so this
is a great homecoming. Dusty would always participate in pregame
ceremonies if we had a bobblehead or things like that.
But to be able to see Dusty in a Dodger uniform,
it's a wonderful sight. But Dodger fans have to turn
back the clock to the nineteen seventies and early eighties
to actually see Johnny B in a Dodger uniform number
(04:10):
twelve like his boyhood idol.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Tommy Davis can't wait.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's going to be a great alumni weekend. Mark Langel.
We're so happy you're doing well. You're a treasure yourself
to the Dodgers. Thanks a lot for the time, my.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Pleasure, David, Thank you. Always good to be with you,
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