Editor’s note: The following excerpt from the book “Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend,” by former Orange County Register columnist Mark Whicker, is reprinted with the permission of ...

Blake Snell getting the call to start the first game of the World Series for the Dodgers is lifelong dream fulfilled.

This day in Los Angeles Dodgers history saw Don Drysdale and Brooklyn legend Pee Wee Reese inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame during a ceremony held in Cooperstown on August 12, 1984.

The left and right duo for the Dodgers break a century's long record as they go up 2-0 in the NLCS against the Brewers.