JonathanLightman

Nonprofit consultant. Passionate re family, world events, civil rights, sports teams. Love life's ironies. Annual Jeopardy! maker (more fun than the TV show).

[JonathanLightman @JonathanLightm1]

@BeatlemaniaUK Van Halen.

[JonathanLightman @JonathanLightm1]

Was thinking of this today. February 9 is indelibly etched in my memory.

[L.A. in a Minute @LaInaMinute]

February 9th marks the 55th anniversary of the 1971 Sylmar/San Fernando earthquake.

The disaster caught many in Los Angeles & California off guard - the damage was tremendous, and the legacy still lives on today.

Let’s get into it!

[The Kings Herald @thekingsherald]

BREAKING: Punxsutawney Phil has confirmed the Sacramento Kings will spend the next 78 years making bad moves to undo earlier bad moves.

[JonathanLightman @JonathanLightm1]

It’s good to finally see some honesty on a restaurant menu having seen so many extolling how their food is “cooked to perfection.”

[Nate @dodgernate]

The final out of every Dodgers World Series title 🏆

[Hyeseong Kim Muse 김혜성 @HyeseongKimMuse]

BREAKING: The Los Angeles Dodgers are finalizing a deal to acquire the San Diego Padres.

“We’ve owned the Padres for years, but now we’re officially putting it down on paper,” said Andrew Friedman, President of Baseball Operations for the Dodgers.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

💖 Great parents, unforgettable memories. Truly admire this beautiful family! 🎶✨

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Greatest dance scene of all time!!!❤️

[Love Music @khnh80044]

This is amazing footage of the legendary artists of music. Love it!🤗💖💖

[JonathanLightman @JonathanLightm1]

It’s good to know that Sacramento County has finally restored this historic site in Arden-Arcade.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Arthur C. Clarke on BBC's Horizon in 1964, when he gave some astonishing predictions about the future.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"A man so fiercely modest and private that while at the University of Cincinnati on a basketball scholarship, he didn't tell his parents back in Brooklyn that he was also on the baseball team. The man whose mother requested one of the first copies of his 1966 autobiography, Koufax, so she could find out something about her son. "You never told me anything," she said to him. The man who in 1968, two years after retiring with three Cy Young Awards, four no-hitters and five ERA titles, mentioned nothing of his baseball career upon meeting a pretty young woman named Anne who was redecorating her parents' Malibu beach house.
Koufax did offer to help her paint, though.
It wasn't until several days later that she learned his identity -- and he learned hers: She was the daughter of actor Richard Widmark.
They were married six months later in her father's West Los Angeles home in front of about a dozen people.
His elbow was shot full of cortisone several times a season.
His stomach was always queasy from the cocktail of anti-inflammatories he swallowed before and after games, which he once said made him "half-high on the mound."
He soaked his elbow in an ice bath for 30 minutes after each game, his arm encased in an inner tube to protect against frostbite.
And even then his arm would swell an inch.
He couldn't go on like this, not when his doctors could not rule out the possibility that he was risking permanent damage to his arm."
Tom Verducci

[Baseball by BSmile @BSmile]

Today In 1953: Rare footage of Walter Alston being introduced as the new manager of the Brooklyn #Dodgers by Walter O'Malley. Fun Fact: Alston never had a multi-year deal with the club, he signed 23 one-year contracts! #MLB #Baseball #Legend #LetsGoDodgers #History

[Nate @dodgernate]

You can’t tell the story of the Los Angeles Dodgers without Miguel Rojas.

[Baseball In Pics @baseballinpix]

Kershaw and Koufax. Koufax often served as a special adviser and mentor for the Dodgers organization, forming a close relationship with Kershaw over the years.

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

17-year-old Helen Shapiro performing ‘Look Who It Is’ with The Beatles on Ready, Steady, Go!, a British TV music show, on October 4, 1963.

[Hassan @Heyhassan]

When you finally do the thing you should’ve done earlier 😂

[L.A. in a Minute @LaInaMinute]

Today marks the 56th anniversary of one of the most important creations of all time: the day the Internet came to life: October 29, 1969.

It happened at UCLA - thank you to one of the most intelligent & dynamic people alive, Professor Leonard Kleinrock.

Let’s get into it!

[L.A. in a Minute @LaInaMinute]

The music genre of Oldies was born right here!

Oldies have been a mainstay in Los Angeles for nearly half a century, but they were the brainchild of Art Laboe, who hosted events at El Monte Legion Stadium. . .which is where Oldies were born.

Let’s get into it!

[Dusty Baker @DustyBakerTV]

These are the most memorable moments from what was one of the greatest #WorldSeries of all time:

- Game 1: Addison Barger grand slam
- Game 2: Yoshi Yamamoto goes to the distance
- Game 3: Shohei Ohtani 2-Homer game, on base 9 times
- Game 3: Clayton Kershaw throws final pitch as Dodger, gets out of bases loaded jam
- Game 3: Will Klein dominates in relief
- Game 3: Freddie Freeman walkoff homer in 18th inning
- Game 4: Guerrero Jr. takes Ohtani deep
- Game 5: Back-to-back homers to open game for Blue Jays
- Game 5: Trey Yesavage sets rookie WS record with 12 K’s
- Game 6: Mookie Betts delivers with 2-RBI single
- Game 6: Wild double play ends game
- Game 7: Bo Bichette 3-run homer
- Game 7: Miguel Rojas homer ties it in the 9th
- Game 7: Will Smith homer in extras puts Dodgers ahead
- Game 7: Yamamoto, pitching one day after throwing 96 pitches, throws 34 more, completing 2 2/3 IP and with winning run at the plate induces a World Series winning double play

So many legendary moments. So many different stars stepping up when it mattered the most. Thank you to the #BlueJays and #Dodgers for an incredible series.