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J.P. Hoornstra

J.P. Hoornstra

Joined: Dec 4, 2023

J.P. Hoornstra is an On SI Contributor. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los Angeles Angels (occasionally of Anaheim) from 2012-23 for the Southern California News Group. His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All-Time, published in 2015. In 2016, he won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for breaking news coverage. He once recorded a keyboard solo on the same album as two of the original Doors.

A Dodgers hat and glove lay on the ground before Game 2 of the 2016 NLCS playoff baseball series between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field on Oct. 16, 2016.
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A first baseman who joined the Dodgers just before they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, and was traded to the New York Mets in 1962, passed away at age 87.

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A detail view of Los Angeles Dodgers hat and glove at Tropicana Field on May 21, 2019.
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Bart Shirley, who died at age 85, literally had Manny Mota and Tommy Lasorda's number before they were household names in Los Angeles.

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