Fernandomania will certainly cut loose once again at Dodger Stadium this summertime, as the Dodgers formally introduced that Fernando Valenzuela‘s number # 34 will certainly be retired throughout the group’s collection with the Rockies on August 11-13. While the # 34 jacket hasn’t been provided to an additional Dodgers gamer because Valenzuela left adhering to the 1990 period, the number had not been ceremonially gotten of blood circulation because of the club’s informal plan of just retiring the varieties of gamers that had actually been sworn in right into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Valenzuela’s 17-year Major League job started with 11 periods with Los Angeles from 1980-90, as well as he published a 3.31 age over his 2348 2/3 innings inDodger Blue After showing up in 10 video games as a reducer in 1980, Valenzuela’s amazing 1981 project made him the only gamer to ever before win a Rookie of the Year Award as well as a Cy Young Award in the exact same period. The Mexico local was a follower favored all over, however particularly came to be a hero among the Mexican-American populace inSouthern California Valenzuela’s time in L.A. saw him accomplish 3 even more top-five surfaces in NL Cy Young ballot, make 6 All-Star looks, as well as win 2 World Series titles in 1981 as well as 1988.
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