If I ever had a mentor, Paul Hagen was it … for all of the seven or eight months we worked together in San Bernardino. Hagen was still young when I joined the Sun-Telegram in August of 1976. He had been there three years or so, as I recall, coming out of Ohio University, as […]

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I’m on record: Joe Torre isn’t going to solve the Dodgers’ problems. They have too many holes for a 67-year-old in the dugout to repair. But I have to give him credit for an intelligent (if obvious) move right here on Opening Day, before the first pitch is thrown. Benching Juan “The Outmaker” Pierre and […]

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