Remembering Fernandomania
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- Опубликовано: 13 май 2021
- Today, May 14th marks the 40th anniversary of one of baseball’s most amazing phenomenon - 20 year-old Fernando Valenzuela’s remarkable 8th consecutive victory to start the 1981 season.
It was called Fernandomania, and even without any social media or sports talk radio back then, the whole country followed each Valenzuela start. Jon Morosi has more on Fernando's magical season and its impact that can still be felt four decades later. 
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Fernando deserves a spot in Coooperstown and the Dodgers should retire his number 34. His rookie season was electric. What he did for baseball in Los Angeles was singular. And that he won a title with the Dodgers his rookie season against the Yankees was another episode in a storied rivalry.
An icon of baseball in Mexico.
Well he's finally getting his number 34 retired by the Dodgers, so that's a start
The entire Mexican league retired it. No Dodger ever wore it after him.
They are retiring his Jersey today!!!
As a lifelong Giants fan, I tip my cap.
Once my father got mad at me for not knowing who Fernando Valenzuela was. I was 10 lol but this is how much Valenzuela meant for the Mexican people. So much that our parents would get pissed for not knowing a pitcher from 15 years before I was born lol
should have made you sleep outside that night too lol jk
Haha my mom got mad at me. She would skip high school at John Muir in Pasadena to watch his games.
@@thebillcollector 😅
Brought tears to my eyes. Was there for all of it. With high school friends on on Opening Day…to being with my mom at Game 3 of the World Series. There has only been two "manias" in America… Beatle and Fernando. Forty years later… the memories are still fresh and bring goosebumps.
Fernando is a Hall of Farmer. Special category.
Tremendous job JP.
well said compita..
What about Hulkamania brother
I remember them going to Fernando's home in Mexico and he showed them where he worked out in the yard. He had a piece of re bar with can shaped chunks of concrete on both ends for a weight set. He was also a good hitter and even pinch hit a few times. He hit close to .400 as a pinch hitter. Won the Cy young and rookie of the year in the same year. Never threw a pitch much above 90 mph but his screw ball was freaky good.
As a lifelong Angel fan it took me a few of his starts to really feel what was happening down the road. Automatic sellouts everywhere he pitched. Huge press. And in his first 9 starts, 8 complete game wins, 5 shutouts, two games where he allowed one run and an 8-0 record. His screwball was un-hittable. And he was only 20 years old. No one heard of him until his first start. SoCal's huge Hispanic population suddenly became visible to the masses. Even as a lifetime Dodger hater, you had to like the spectacle of it all and admire it.
Rookie of the Year and also the Cy Young winner (as a rookie) that year. While he isn't Hall of Fame material, he was a key part of two Dodgers' championship teams (1981 and 1988) and was a key piece of the team for a decade. Finally glad that 34 has been retired.
I love these throwbacks please make more
@Job I'm pretty sure news would've been everywhere had he died so, nah the name is perfect
What an awesome time to be alive and to be a Dodgers fan! 👍😎😂
Hey mlb network... you wanna change the title to “looking back at fernandomania” or something like that? Cause with the title and the black and white thumbnail makes it seem like he died
On god. I googled his name expecting to see news of his death.
Clickbait
Ikr had to check Google as well. Someone send this to Fernando. MLB trying to write him off smh
It says fernandomania. Just like Tebow mania. If it said remembering Fernando Valenzuela then yeah.
@@joshuaevans6065 it did. They changed it to what it is now. Lmao
He was PHENOMENAL! My greatest memories of BB had Fernando in them.
I remember Fernando well! He had an AMAZING Screwball! That's a rare pitch, so few pitchers throw it, much less perfect it like Fernando Valenzuela did.
I play red 34 on roulette every time for Fernando the one and only .Tremendous fan of his. And I'm on East coast. What great times what a windup what a charm what a pro. He has a little bit of babe Ruth in him in 1981
This was really well done.
Orgullo mexicano.
Poor choice in title & thumbnail. Made it seem like he died
For real I was shook
Felicidades muy agradable reportaje, me gusto mucho
Judging by the title I thought he died
Same
same, what a terrible title.
Facts
Right? Like bruh!
Fernando Valenzuela is the greatest He would have been Hall of Fame if Lasorda did not burned him all thru his 20's with complete game shutouts!.
Very well said. Lasorda burned out his arm
The game was different (and better) then. Not to mention there would be no Fernandomania if teams coddled pitchers like now. He would’ve never started opening day, he’d be on strict pitch counts, and they’d shut him down after 140 ish innings. I highly doubt Fernando himself would change a thing.
Viva la Fernandomanía!!!
The closes thing ive seen to Fernandomania is Ohtani with the Dodgers and still he falls short
Ok, for those of you that don't know why today Fernando Valenzuela was honored today by The Los Angeles Dodgers' move to retire his #34, so that no other Dodgers player will ever wear that number?
Take a look at this for a few minutes.
Although, maybe not an MLB Hall of Famer, he was more than just a good pitcher...he, like Jackie Robinson, although didn't go through the atrocities that Jackie went through in the late 40s, broke through cultural barriers in MLB.
He brought a whole new element of interest to MLB and Dodgers baseball at the same time.
Salud El Toro!
The voice that you credit as being Jaime Jarin is not Jaime. It's a TV broadcast from a mexican tv station. I have listened to Jaime since The 70's. I know his voice.
Dodgers retiring Fernando Valenzuela’s Jersey today!
En mi opinion no es Fernando Valenzuela, es EL GRANDIOSO FERNANDO VALENZUELA. ⚾️⚾️⚾️
8-11-2023 dodgers finally retire number 34 🎉⚾️💙 it’s time for Cooperstown now! Please make that happen MLB make Fernando a Hall of Famer!
I thought he died from the thumbnail and title oof
The only thing close was Fidryich. God bless em both.
The current version of MLB has made great stories like this now impossible. Had Fernando came along in 2021, they would take him out after 5 or 6 innings to "protect" his arm, their investment. That's just one of several changes through which baseball has rendered itself lifeless and boring.
He looks Navajo..
Mexicans watching the great fernandomania in dodger stadium in the 80s.
Men wanted to be him. Women wanted fornication with him. FERNANDOMANIA BABY!!!!!! Let's Go Dodgers! We still making history!
I can't hit him in MLB the show 21
RIP🥺
I don’t think he’s dead
Uhhh he ain't dead.
stupid title
did he die?
Nope
Not even old enough to collect social security yet lol.
@@solar2k6 joke 👍
Sosamania please
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Dominican republic only international country in usa sport with:
600 homeruns in mlb
3k hits in mlb
2k rbis in mlb
3k strike in mlb
12k points in nba .
7k Rebounds in NBA
1k blocks in NBA
Ichiro has 3000 by himself for Japan
Who has 12 point in the NBA
@@heitorramos955 12k Is 12.000 points . K is 1000+
@@heitorramos955 al Horford 🇩🇴 12.288 points .
@@heitorramos955
Al Horford 🇩🇴
12.2k points
7.2k Rebounds
2.9k ast
1k blocks
They gotta bring up race. So sad.
You’re mad they brought up race because he isn’t white? He’s a proud Mexican man. Fragility at its finest