San Dimas Little League

The year was 1957. Television was black and white, you burned your trash in your back yard incinerator on trash day, and hung your wash and the baby’s clothe diapers on lines to dry on the day after so they wouldn’t get ashes on them. Families had big gas-guzzling cars. Freeways hadn’t reached San Dimas yet. And the L.A. Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. Ekstrand School was just being built and Via Verde was still grassy hillsides. This field at Marchant Park became San Dimas’ Field of Dreams in the spring of 1957. There were no A’s, or Giants or Dodgers that year, instead the four teams (one division for all kids aged 8 – 12) were named after their sponsors. Bob’s Market played San Dimas Diary after San Dimas Feed and Grain played American Legion.