At the 1:10 p.m. scheduled first pitch of the Dodgers’ season opener against the San Francisco Giants, the Dodger Stadium entrance on Vin Scully Avenue was virtually empty.
He was a hometown kid from Compton who had just signed with the Dodgers over the winter. He was playing in front of a large gathering of family and friends.Brooks drove a ball into the left-field pavilion for a three-run home run that eventually won the game and inspired a new Dodger Stadium chant.”You don’t forget that. I don’t forget it, I’ll never forget it,” said Brooks, 63, when I reached him by phone in his Woodland Hills home. “Opening day is opening day, there’s nothing like it.
Pitching for the Dodgers that day was Orel Hershiser, who felt goose bumps then as the Dodgers ace, and now as a Dodgers broadcaster. Then, in 1977, Fred Claire, then the club’s vice president of marketing, decided to make opening day an event. In Tommy Lasorda’s debut season as manager, the game was moved to the afternoon, Frank Sinatra showed up to sing the national anthem, and the Dodgers have been throwing annual parties ever since.
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