Tom: You aren't old enough to remember Spooner - go ahead, tell me you also remember Reese, Gilliam, Snider, Hodges, Roe, Furillo, Erskine, Labine, etc., etc.!
Jerry:
No, I am only old enough to remember Bob Gibson and Denny McLain. But I have read an awful lot about baseball history ... probably more than about golf history.
Plus, my parents were both Cardinals fans transplanted to New York, and they went to a lot of games at Ebbets Field before I was born. So, I've heard a lot about the Dodgers, especially Reese and Campy and Furillo, who I imagine to have been a lot like Dwight Evans. And I did meet Jackie Robinson when I was a kid ... he lived in Stamford when I grew up, and we went to his house to learn about integrating the public schools.
I do not know nearly so much about the Dodgers pitchers but I could tell you about darn near every Cardinals prospect between 1940 and 1980, since my dad was still grumbling about guys like Tom Poholsky and Alpha Brazle twenty years after they'd retired.