Don Drysdale

The inaugural class of 55 inductees selected for the Los Angeles Unified School District's High School Sports Hall of Fame was honored on Sunday at USC during a dinner and ceremony. Honorees and their representatives were recognized in a gathering......

The first inductees into the Los Angeles Unified School District High School Sports Hall of Fame will be honored Sunday, June 5 during a ceremony at USC's Town and Gown facility. Four of the inductees are scheduled to speak: onetime......

It's no easy job, being the lungs of Los Angeles. But Griffith Park, the foremost green space in a city notorious for meager parkland and abundant smog, endures bravely, maybe even heroically. Venture into the park, or nearby Elysian Park, or one of...

Editor's Note: Numerous instances of plagiarism have been discovered in Dan Kimber’s “Education Matters” column, which ran in the News- Press from September 2003 to September 2011. In those columns where plagiarism has been found, a...

This story was first published in the Tribune on May 22, 2011. The voice is softer now but as affable and entertaining as ever. Moose Skowron still has many, many tales to tell. Like the night Marilyn Monroe was flirting -- only not with Skowron, nor...

In Michael Feeney Callan's fawning new biography, we get plenty of the actor, director and environmentalist we already know but only a tantalizing, too-brief glimpse of a young man we almost never hear about: Charles Robert Redford Jr., Angeleno. From...

Aug. 29, 1970: Joe Torre made the difference in the Dodgers' 1-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. This wasn't the case of a managerial goof. This was Torre the Cardinals' power-hitting third baseman, whose ninth-inning home run against Don Sutton provided...

The sudden appearance of an 18-foot-deep sinkhole in the backyard of a Long Beach home has created a stir in the quiet neighborhood--and frustration for the homeowner. John Steube, 39, said the hole was discovered about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, when......

Nov. 10, 1960: Hello, this is Don Drysdale calling about Dodger tickets. Really. The Dodgers announced that Drysdale and three other players would call fans seeking ticket buyers for their new ballpark coming in Chavez Ravine. What a simple, and......

As a Jew who has been a baseball fan his entire life, I guess I'm the perfect target audience for "Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story," which opens Friday at the Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills and the......

Duke Snider, one of the Brooklyn Dodgers' "Boys of Summer" and among a celebrated trio of New York center fielders in the 1950s, died Sunday. He was 84. Snider died at Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, the Dodgers announced. No cause was...