This Day In Latino History

On this day in 1957, “Los Doyers” were born when the American League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles. New Yorkers were none too happy when the league also announced that day the move of rival New York Giants to San Francisco. Eleven months later, the Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in LA, defeating the former New York and now San Francisco Giants, 6-5, before 78,672 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Twenty-three years later, a 20 year-old Dodger pitcher from Mexico named Fernando Valenzuela would go on to become the only rookie to ever be named Rookie of the Year and win the Cy Young Award in the same season, spawning what was called Fernandomania and increasing Mexican radio coverage of the Dodgers from three stations to seventeen.