* Lest we forget: Buzzie Bavasi

May 2, 2008

The former general manager for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers passed away May 1 at the age of 93.

According to Richard Goldstein’s obituary in The New York Times:

In his 18 years with the Dodgers, from 1951 to 1968, Bavasi’s clubs won eight National League pennants and four World Series championships, including the team’s only one in Brooklyn, in 1955, against the Yankees, building teams with the likes of Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella and Maury Wills.

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