Jan 31, 1970: Lefty Phillips was fired–the radio personality, not the Angels' manager.

KMPC decided to cancel the Lefty Phillips Show, which The Times' radio critic Don Page thought was a terrible idea. Not that the Phillips show was good radio.

"Some critics called Phillips' show a disaster–and it was," Page wrote. "It was a colorful, beautiful, charming, unequaled disaster."

This, after all, was the man who said the Angels "were going to improve every phrase of their game."

–Keith Thursby