Fernando Valenzuela arrived in Los Angeles in 1980 as a young Mexican and built a community in Chavez Ravine for Mexican ...
Come to Dodger Stadium for a ballgame, stay for a ballpark tour in Japanese or a bite of Takoyaki -- a fritter described by ...
Fernando Valenzuela, the cultural hero and baseball legend whose journey from a dusty pitcher’s mound in rural Mexico to ...
The historic impact Fernando Valenzuela made on the city of Los Angeles traces its roots to the 1950s, according to renounced ...
I feel like I lost an uncle or a cousin, a member of the family,” said Andres Rubalcava Rubio on the San Fernando Valley ...
The arrival of Fernando Valenzuela to Major League Baseball in 1981 marked the beginning of a cultural phenomenon known as ...
Suddenly, Latinos in Los Angeles — many of whom still bitter about the displacement of Latino families from Chavez Ravine two ...
The late Fernando Valenzuela’s exploits on the mound were enough to make him a baseball star and a Los Angeles Dodgers legend ...
The granite-and-limestone of new Yankee Stadium on chilly autumn nights vs. Dodger Stadium in sunny Chavez Ravine, with the San Gabriel Mountains beyond the pavilions. New York is 8-3 against the ...
Valenzuela, nicknamed El Toro, became a hero from Mexico that captivated not only Los Angeles, but the world. He replaced Jerry Reuss as the year’s Opening Day starter, throwing a shutout against the ...