Backwards K Pod 1981; The Season Of Fernandomania

Backwards K Pod
Where We Collect Ballplayers And Their Stories
The 1981 MLB season is best remembered for two things; a strike-shortened season breaks the season into a story of two halves, and the birth and rise of Fernandomania in Los Angeles. Fernando Valenzuela was the youngest of 12 siblings, from the backwater town of Etchohuaquila, Mexico. He would rise from abject poverty, to become the brightest star in the baseball universe in the 1980’s.
His stellar play would elevate the game to more new fans of the major league product, than any player before or since. He would also unite the Dodgers organization with the Mexican population in L.A., 20 years after Dodgers Stadium at Chavez-Ravine was built on a stretch of land, that saw three prominent Mexican-American communities, wiped off the map, by eminent domain for a failed public housing project.
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