Our hero is a wizened 23 …

  • Rubby De La Rosa gets featured play from Tony Jackson of ESPNLosAngeles.com and Ken Gurnick of MLB.com.
  • Though a comeback is unrealistic, you can tell in this piece by Gurnick that Darren Dreifort misses baseball.
  • Fifty years ago, $37.50 would get you eight Saturdays of instruction at Leo Durocher’s California Baseball School. Check out the ad at the Daily Mirror.
  • “Brooklyn Dodgers in Cuba” author Jim Vitti was interviewed by Ernest Reyes of Blue Heaven.
  • Spring Training attendance for the Dodgers and Angels has dropped more than 40% this year so far, notes Steve Dilbeck of the Times, though this weekend’s games should start a rebound.
  • Here’s how Rockies blog Purple Row assess the Dodgers.
  • Please make sure you don’t skip over Hollywood Joe Benardello’s guest piece, “A has-been’s and never-was’ perspective of Camelback Ranch.”

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Brewers at Dodgers, 1:05 p.m. (KCAL)