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Before coming to CSN, Marques was finance secretary for the city of Rio de Janeiro--a job of Augean proportions. When she arrived in 1993, city coffers held a paltry $5 million. In two years' time, Marques--earning the epithet "the Billion-Dollar Woman"--turned Rio's battered fortunes completely...
But I find it hard to believe that his love of the Los Angeles Dodgers is because of their signing of Chan Ho Park and Hideo Nomo. His devotion to the team seems tied not to the players or even the city, but the organization.
So the sports bar in Brooklyn that was sued for calling itself "The Brooklyn Dodger" had some beef (no pun intended) when it said the Brooklyn Dodgers no longer exist and that Los Angeles has no claim on the name.
So what about my math teacher? It tears at me to say he is fooling himself--since he did teach me how many degrees are in a triangle and other such trivia--but I think he is. When he roots for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he is rooting for a...
Just as Jackie Robinson made him a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Duke Snider and other ghosts of the team he loved made him a Los Angeles Dodgers fan.