A tour of former Dodgers around baseball, with news on Cody Bellinger thriving with the Cubs, Justin Turner starting at second base for the first time in nearly seven years, John Ely honored in Albuquerque, and Tayler Scott getting designated for assignment by the Red Sox.
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In this July 27, 2008 photo, Albuquerque Isotopes manager Dean Treanor shakes the hand of former Dukes manager Del Crandall after he and five other members were inducted into the Albuquerque Professional Baseball Hall of Fame. Treanor and Crandall worked together in the Dodger organization at the same time. Crandall died this week at age 91. (Jim Thompson/Journal)
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. – Del Crandall, a star catcher who played on two Milwaukee Braves teams that reached the World Series in the 1950s before managing one of the great minor league teams of all time in Albuquerque, has died at age 91.
Crandall had Parkinson’s disease and died Wednesday in Mission Viejo, California, surrounded by family, his son Bill Crandall said.