Category Archives: Sports

Know your Dodgers

Posted on April 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

April 10, 1958

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Know your Dodgers

Posted on April 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

April 9, 1958

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Know your Dodgers

Posted on April 8, 2008 by lmharnisch

April 8, 1958

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Know your Dodgers

Posted on April 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

April 7, 1958

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Know your Dodgers

Posted on April 4, 2008 by lmharnisch

April 4, 1958

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April 4, 1908

Posted on April 4, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, Opening Day in the Pacific Coast League. Below, a bitter legal battle in which a woman is seeking a court order barring her husband and his adopted children from selling any of their real estate because she would receive … Continue reading →

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Know your Dodgers

Posted on April 3, 2008 by lmharnisch

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Know your Dodgers

Posted on April 2, 2008 by lmharnisch

April 2, 1958

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Dodger parking

Posted on March 31, 2008 by lmharnisch

        By Keith ThursbyTimes Staff Writer There’s a long line of people willing and able to criticize the Dodgers for the traffic mess at the Coliseum Saturday. But what could people have expected? Unless you’ve been under … Continue reading →

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Art Aragon, RIP

Posted on March 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 18, 1949 Los Angeles

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Dodger parking

Posted on March 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

By Keith ThursbyTimes Staff Writer The Dodgers’ one-night return to the Coliseum has the team wrestling with a familiar problem—parking. The Dodgers are offering round-trip shuttles from the Dodger Stadium parking lot to the Coliseum for their March 29 exhibition … Continue reading →

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March 6, 1908

Posted on March 6, 2008 by lmharnisch

Fritz Kreisler and ostriches, with the White Sox thrown in. No shortage of things to do in 1908 Los Angeles … Below, in an ideal world The Times would have packaged its three stories about red activists, two on the … Continue reading →

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Feb. 17, 1908

Posted on February 17, 2008 by lmharnisch

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Feb. 13, 1908

Posted on February 13, 2008 by lmharnisch

  The grand jury investigates gambling in Los Angeles … A determined federal agent captures his quarry after a long chase … The amusing tale of a plug hat … A USC medical student files a lawsuit charging that he … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Kareem

Posted on February 12, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Here’s a salute from the Daily Mirror to one of The Times’ new bloggers!

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Dogfight

Posted on February 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

Feb. 10, 1908Los Angeles     The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raids a carefully planned dogfight in an orange grove outside Covina. Officers capture 23 spectators who came to the fight from across the country while … Continue reading →

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Sports

Posted on February 5, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Feb. 4-5, 1958Los Angeles Here are some lead sports pages from the Mirror News. This may not seem funny if you don’t work in the news business but to anyone who lays out the paper, what they did with … Continue reading →

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Roy Campanella

Posted on January 28, 2008 by lmharnisch

  Los Angeles Times file photo OK, what is our mystery photo? Montgomery Clift’s Chevrolet (wrecked in 1956 during the filming of "Raintree County")? Interesting guess. But no. Gail Russell’s Chevrolet? Good guess, but she was driving a convertible. Ernie … Continue reading →

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Game of the Century

Posted on January 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

By Keith Thursby, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 20, 2008 Watching a college basketball game on TV used to be a very big deal. Can it really be 40 years ago that a very young version of me–I was … Continue reading →

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Game of the Century

Posted on January 20, 2008 by lmharnisch

J.R. Gonzales, who writes the Bayou City History blog at the Houston Chronicle, takes a look at the game from the Cougars’ perspective. Because this was a local story for the Chronicle, he’s got quite a few nice, sharp staff … Continue reading →

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