Blue days. (L.A. Stories).Before Los Angeles Dodgers "Dodgers" and "Brooklyn Dodgers" redirect here. For the American football team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (football). For the Eastern Basketball Association team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (basketball). pitchers and catchers report for spring training Feb. 12, nearly 100 fans will have had their moment to spit and strut on the Vero Beach Vero Beach (vēr`o), city (1990 pop. 17,350), seat of Indian River co., E Fla., on Indian River (a lagoon and part of the Intracoastal Waterway); founded c.1888, inc. 1919. , Fla. fields as part of the biannual bi·an·nu·al adj. 1. Happening twice each year; semiannual. 2. Occurring every two years; biennial. bi·an Adult Baseball Camp. For $4,195 (transportation not included), fans get to spend a week with former Dodgers stars such as Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey, Bill Russell, Clem Labine, Carl Erskine, Ralph Branca, Duke Snider and Rick Monday. Each participant receives daily instruction, plays in intramural intramural /in·tra·mu·ral/ (-mu´r'l) within the wall of an organ. in·tra·mu·ral adj. Occurring or situated within the walls of a cavity or organ. games, attends nightly dinners and awards ceremonies honoring each day's best players, who have ranged from 30 to 87. On the instructors' side, Garvey, Cey, Lopes and Russell--who from 1973 through 1981 were apart of the longest-running infield quarter in major league history--will appear together at their first camp since February 1998. Last year, Monday, now one of the Dodgers broadcasters, suffered a torn left anterior cruciate ligament anterior cruciate ligament n. Abbr. ACL The cruciate ligament of the knee that crosses from the anterior intercondylar area of the tibia to the posterior part of the lateral condyle of the femur. after colliding with a fantasy camper during a game. But Monday took the accident in stride. "That (camper) felt a lot worse than Rick did," said Chris Gutierrez, the Dodgers coordinator of baseball information. |
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