With our beloved Minnesota Twins out of the baseball playoffs, I decided to root for the team I followed closely as a kid. I started watching baseball and became a Dodger fan in 1977. Although we moved had away before I turned a year old, it seemed natural to follow the team closest to where I was born since there wasn't a team close to where we lived. They proceeded to get to the World Series that year and the next (losing to the Yankees both years and launching my lifelong willingness to cheer for any team playing against them), and then again in 1981 and 1988 (winning both, the first against the Yankees). It was quite some time before I realized how fortunate it was to get to the Fall Classic so often. In honor of this year's team and all the great former Dodgers I'm re-sharing this early puzzle of mine which featured both my husband's and my favorite players:
Tomorrow we'll ...
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