The Dodgers announced yesterday that it will retire Gil Hodges' uniform No. 14 and that the ceremony will take place June 4 when the Dodgers play the Mets. It's been a long time since the Dodgers retired a uniform number. The organization, with one exception, does not retire a number until the person who wore it is elected to the Hall of Fame. I think this is the proper way to retire numbers, rather than the "just-because" reasons that several other baseball teams do. The last time the Dodgers retired a uniform number was on Aug. 14, 1998 when they retired Don Sutton's No. 20. Twenty-four years have gone by since, but, heck, people have been waiting for Hodges to reach the Hall of Fame for a lot longer than that. So I figured I would revive a blog series that I haven't done in years -- just to continue the whole "what you waiting for?" theme. This is where I review all the players who have worn a certain number for the Dodgers. Today we're look
We're off to a hotly contested start in the bid to add a fifth card to the Cardboard Appreciation Hall of Fame. In the first vote-off, the 1991 BBM Hideo Nomo jumped out to an early lead and looked like it would hang on for the victory, but the 1980 Topps Highlights Garry Templeton, in the second-place slot for days, made a late charge and pulled out a one-vote victory. Here is the vote total for the first group of cards: 1. 1980 Topps '79 Highlights Garry Templeton, 14 votes 2. 1991 BBM Hideo Nomo, 13 votes 3. 2008 Upper Deck Rookie Exclusives James Hardy, 10 votes 4. 1991 Score Rick Dempsey, 8 votes 5. 1993 Upper Deck All-Time Heroes Joe Black, 3 votes 6. 2013 Chattanooga Lookouts Luis Vazquez, 2 votes 7. 2009 Bowman World Baseball Classic Gift Ngoepe, 1 vote 8. 2011 Pacific Coast League Top Prospects Eric Thames, 0 votes So, the Templeton card takes its place in the second-round of voting. We're still in the first round here and will be for the next seven weeks. Th