Baseball Remembers: Ron Cey
In 1968, the Dodgers decided to spend two of their top three drafts picks on a pair of 5’10” right-handed-hitting college third basemen.
On the surface, that would seem to be a pretty bad idea, but the team had been struggling to find a reliable third baseman for several years at that point. Jim Gilliam played there regularly for three years, from 1959 …
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