'The number 34 of Valenzuela should be retired. This is so obvious that a generation of Dodgers clubhouse workers, without orders from above, have quietly refused to give out the jersey since he left the team in 1990,' BillPlaschke writes.
The number 19 of infielder Jim Gilliam was retired just after his unexpected death from a massive brain hemorrhage suffered while he was a Dodgers coach near the end of the 1978 season. Gilliam, who played on four World Series championship teams, was never inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Then there’s Zack Wheat and Dazzy Vance, two Hall of Famers who set franchise marks for the Dodgers in the 1920s. Wheat played in an era before baseball players wore numbers, while Vance wore a number 15 for only one Brooklyn season, and both are honored with hallway plaques. Notice that Sutton is the only player with a retired number who spent the entirety of his Dodgers career in Los Angeles, without an affiliation with Brooklyn. The Dodgers have been in town for 61 years and they can’t come up with more homegrown heroes? Actually, they can, and here are some:
But, right now, Garvey’s number is seen nightly on the back of hitting coach Robert Van Scoyoc. Then there is the case of Mike Piazza, who is in the Hall of Fame as a New York Met and played the majority of his career there, yet whose number might be retired by the Dodgers if Piazza ever ended his grudge against the organization and agreed to be honored.
The Angels have retired five numbers, but only Rod Carew and Nolan Ryan are in the Hall of Fame. The other three are men who nonetheless made significant contributions to the organization – owner Gene Autry, coach Jimmie Reese, and shortstop and manager Jim Fregosi.
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