Blog Kiosk: 6/15/2020 - Dodgers Links & News - Some Odds and Ends

Here's a fun International Press Photo featuring Jackie Robinson, Joe Black, Duke Snider, Don Zimmer, Walter Alston and Gil Hodges. In the background is a blackboard with the words, "The Bums Dood It 10 Straight." (eBay auction link)

Unfortunately, it is undated and the paper descriptor on the reverse has been torn off. Nevertheless, I am certain the eBay seller is correct in saying it's from the 1955 season. That year they had two - ten game winning streaks before winning their first World Series Championship.

Below are more links to check out:

• This Day in Dodgers History: In 1938 Reds lefty Johnny Vander Meer made history when he threw his second consecutive no-hitter -- beating the Dodgers at Ebbets Field, 6-0. BTW, this was the very first night game played in New York City. In 1996 the Dodgers turn their first triple play in 47 years. In Atlanta with runners going from 1st and 2nd base in the 1st inning, Braves infielder Chipper Jones hit a popup to short-left that was snagged by Juan Castro. He dutifully threw to second baseman Delino Deshields for the second out, who then relayed the ball to first baseman Eric Karros to get the third out (6-4-3 Triple Play).
• Happy Birthday, Ed Wheeler, Eddie Pipgras, Hank Winston, Babe Dahlgren, Dusty Baker, Brett Butler & Josh Lindblom!
• RIP, Claudell Washington. Via Josh Dubow at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- "All-Star outfielder Claudell Washington dies at age 65."
• Via Jeff Passan at ESPN -- "MLB players reject latest offer, ask league to set 2020 season schedule."

In a statement Saturday night, MLBPA executive director Tony Clark rejected MLB's latest proposal and said: "Further dialogue with the league would be futile. It's time to get back to work. Tell us when and where."

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"Given your continued insistence on hundreds of millions of dollars of additional pay reductions, we assume these negotiations are at an end," Meyer said in the letter. "If it is your intention to unilaterally impose a season, we again request that you inform us and our members of how many games you intend to play and when and where players should report."

• Via Adam Salcido at LA Sports Report -- "Justin Turner and the Boys in Blue are READY for Baseball to Return."
• This should be interesting. Per Anthony Franco at MLB Trade Rumors -- "Court Orders MLB, Yankees To Unseal 2017 Letter Regarding Rules Violations."
• Via Gary Ashwill at Agate Type -- "White racial violence & the Negro Leagues: The Chicago riot of 1919."

The 1919 Chicago riot was only part of a wave of racial disturbances that swept the nation during the war years and immediately after, culminating in the horrific Tulsa massacre of 1921 (dramatized in HBO's Watchmen), where vigilantes dropped explosives from biplanes and the black section of town was almost completely destroyed, leaving 10,000 people homeless. The “Chicago war” was not the only such incident to affect black professional baseball: the East St. Louis disturbances in 1917, when between 100 and 150 black people were killed by rioting white workers, seems to have driven Charlie Mills’s St. Louis Giants out of business for two years, as white owners of ballparks apparently refused to accommodate them.

• Per Jeff Dominique at LA Dodger Talk -- "A Closer Look at Bobby Miller."
• Dodger sign their fifth round pick -- Gavin Stone, via Mike DiGiovanna on twitter:

According to source, #Dodgers fifth-round pick Gavin Stone, a RHP from Central Arkansas, signed for $100,000, which is well under slot value of $327,200 for the 159th pick in draft. Stone went 3-1 with 1.30 in four starts this season, striking out 31 and walking six in 27 2/3 IP.

— Mike DiGiovanna (@MikeDiGiovanna) June 15, 2020

• Awesome! Jon Weisman has a podcast and he shares his talk with former Dodger Micah Johnson, via twitter:

Check out my new podcast interview with @Micah_Johnson3, formerly with the White Sox, Dodgers and Braves, now a successful full-time artist. We had a great chat about baseball, art and life in 2020. https://t.co/rCkm2DizJ7 pic.twitter.com/gVMi04EDgo

— Jon Weisman (@jonweisman) June 15, 2020

• Apparently, the Dodgers have just signed their first undrafted free agent and his name is Robbie Peto, via his twitter:

Ready to get to work! Let’s go @Dodgers pic.twitter.com/AXlyzL6nma

— Robbie Peto (@Robbie_Peto) June 14, 2020

• Via Matthew Moreno at Dodger Blue -- "Dodgers Sign Undrafted Free Agent Pitcher Robbie Peto."

Including selections made during the Draft, Peto becomes the fifth pitcher the Dodgers have added to the organization within the past week. “We’re fired up. We just got a lot of velocity, a lot of pure stuff. It’s big, it’s right handed,” Dodgers vice president of amateur scouting Billy Gasparino said of the haul of pitchers.

“It was a strength of the Draft, and we just took advantage of it.”

• Kareem Abdul Jabbar recently spoke about watching Jackie Robinson play, via AM570 on twitter:

.@kaj33 describes the first time he saw Jackie Robinson play in person. (📷: @JonSooHooPics)

Full interview: https://t.co/BuHJq52poO pic.twitter.com/KmAeyngWH0

— AM 570 LA Sports (@AM570LASports) June 12, 2020

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