Perspective

    I've been a Dodger fan since the first year they came here, 1958. I listened to Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett broadcast every game since I was in third grade, in Mrs. Hoffman's class at Martha Baldwin School. My dad bought me a Philco desk radio (the size of a loaf of bread, turquoise plastic shell with a white front, AM only) and I listened to all the games.
    Sometimes I played in the mirror on the back of my bedroom door, as Koufax pitched (I'm right-handed, but in the mirror it looked ok) or Drysdale (screw the reversal of the mirror).
    But most of all, I became a fan of baseball. And I have studied its history.
    And over the years I've acquired some photos. Most of them are publicity shots, baseball card shots, newspaper shots... and I can't give the photographers credit because I don't know who they were. But I enjoy looking at them. I hope you will too.
    Cy Young was the preeminent pitcher of his era. From 1890 –1921, a span of 22 years, he won 511 games and lost 315. Things were different then; they didn't have set-up men and closers; but he started 815 games  and completed 750 of them.
    No wonder he got an award named after himself.
    He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1937.