Who was Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela? The man Dylan Hernández got to know in the press box for years knew baseball and understood his value.
Fernando Valenzuela vanished without saying a word, which, in retrospect, was the most Fernando Valenzuela thing he could have done. Not until he was falsely rumored on social media to have passed away did the Dodgers issue an official statement acknowledging that he stepped away from their Spanish-language radio broadcast. His health problems were never specified. Valenzuela didn’t demand attention. He didn’t want sympathy. He didn’t suddenly become like this at the end of his life.
One day in my early years as the Dodgers beat writer for this newspaper, Valenzuela sat next to me in the press box during a road game in Colorado. Valenzuela started telling me ahead of time what type of pitch was about to be thrown and why. He was right enough times to convince me that he knew everything about baseball, which prompted me to ask him about some disconcerting trend for the Dodgers. I can’t recall what I asked, but I remember his response. “I don’t know,” he said.
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