Here's how Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela inspired 'Fernandomania' songs by Mexican artists in the 1980s. Valenzeula died last week at age 63.
Fernando Valenzuela throws out the ceremonial first pitch during the 92nd MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard at Dodger Stadium on July 19, 2022 in Los Angeles.Conjunto Michoacan, the veteran Regional Mexican group known for its ranchera and norteño ballads, released “El Corrido de Fernando Valenzuela,” about the late star Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, in 1981. But the group didn’t do it because everybody was doing it — even though, in the early ’80s, everybody was.
“My parents, right away, you know, they started crying. We all cried,” Sergio Juarez, a baseball fan who grew up near Dodger Stadium, recently told. “It was different because Fernando looked like us. Fernando was someone that was humble, and he broke barriers that a lot of people wouldn’t even reach.
Corridos represent a 200-year-old tradition of story-songs that frequently deal with David-vs.-Goliath-type battles of lone heroes taking on institutions; they were an adaptable way of saluting Valenzuela in the ’80s. In aessay after the Dodgers retired Valenzuela’s No.
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