My favorite ballpark ever. Never got to see it in it’s original formation. I think It would be awesome to have the Big A back inside the stadium.
The old googie A in Anaheim is one of my favourite things about any ballpark ever.
From baseball-fever.com.
The Angels are in first place on July 4th, 2011. May they stay there and never look back.
1959 All-Star Game logo, from Chris Creamer’s SportsLogos.net
Gotta give some more Dodgers love here on LA & ANA. Hopefully I can find some more good Scully quotes from my game notes I used to take while working Dodgers games over the past 4 seasons.
Torii Hunter - by Stephen E. Hughes.
I may be really slow here but thanks to Let’s Go Dodgers I found this sweet illustration of Torii Hunter.
Not sure what to say about this. I agree that the Angels name needs to be either the Los Angeles Angels, Anaheim Angels, or CALIFORNIA ANGELS!!! But I also know a lot of Dodgers fans that are super annoying about the “Dodgers/Angels rivalry” and this shirt only fuels that attitude that they have. They usually trash talk specifically to site the “LA of Anaheim” name and disclaim that they actually would root for the Angels when they were the California Angels.
What can I say about Juan Rivera? He wasn’t much of a factor outside of two good seasons, only one of which I can remember. The other one I think he was awful for half the season and then miraculously rocked it for the second half of the season. He had braces and frosted tipped hair. He was the nerdy Venezuelan Bartender Brad of the team who could have been a major threat in the lineup if not for his superhuman ability to ground into a double play just when you needed him to launch one into the Angel Stadium bullpen. Every time he came up to the plate with a runner on first base all I could see in my head was GIDP… and usually that’s what happened. Unfortunately Auto GIDP is what I will remember when I think of Juan Rivera as an Angel.
Good luck in Toronto.
Bummertronix5000. Mike Napoli was the best catcher the Angels have had since Bengie Molina was jettisoned in 2006. Funny thing is that when Bengie left Anaheim he signed with Toronto. Those guys must really love what Anaheim has cookin’ behind the plate. Bengie’s defensive ability and clutch hitting were never really replaced but the loss of B-Mo was definitely eased by the fact that we had Mike Napoli step it up where highly touted Jeff Mathis never did. I can’t imagine that the Angels would have been as successful as they have been for the past five seasons(minus last year) without Mike Napoli.
Thanks Mikey Naps for launching bombs into the rock pile and holding the fort for us behind the plate. Hopefully a swift take-over will happen for Hank Conger now that you’re not around to keep Mathis out of the lineup as much as you did.
Alex Nabaum’s Illustrates the McCourt Divorce for ESPN Magazine. Dodgers and Art/Design, two of my favorite subjects.
(via mightyflynn, bluecatsredsox)
Such a bummer for all of LA to have to suffer through a divorce.
