4/27/2007

Baseball History -- April 27

Complete entry for April 27 is at BaseballLibrary.com HERE.

Highlighted entry:
1981
"Fernandomania" hits fever pitch at Dodger Stadium as a sellout crowd watches the 20-year-old rookie pitch his 4th shutout in 5 starts 5-0 versus the
Giants. Valenzuela is 5-0 with a 0.20 ERA and is batting .438.


There was a novelty song that was produced around this time...Can't find the lyrics to it, but it went something like:

Fer-nan-do! Fer-nan-do!

Hey, Fernando, you pitch the baseball,

Fernando Valenzuela!

What do you want? It's been 25 years.

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