Final Chapter Opens on Dodgers East Coast Home

Vero Beach - On a sunny Sunday March afternoon the Dodgers again made a final home connection with New York. One time Brooklyn, NY residents, the now Los Angeles-based baseball team for a final time at Dodgertown played the New York Mets. The 60-year Dodger Spring Training home will soon serve another team. Next year, the Dodgers will train in Arizona.

I experienced the game sitting next to the father of one of the Dodgers young pitchers who was accompanied by his wife, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. How fitting that this former Brooklyn resident experienced the game with several generations of baseball fans who will soon have Dodgertown as a memory in Dodger lore as many remember Ebbets Field, the Dodger's Brooklyn home. Pictured in the dugout are Brooklyn-born Joe Torre who now manages the Dodgers, on his right is former Brooklyn Dodger player and long-time Los Angeles Dodger manager Tom Lasorda.