This summer, baseball’s All-Star game finally returns to Los Angeles. Back in 1959 the Los Angeles Dodgers’ great side-armed flame thrower, Don Drysdale, won the first All-Star contest to be played in the state of California. He also won the very first World Series game ever played in California that same season. A career member of the Dodgers, “Big D” was born and raised in Los Angeles, but he was the last of all Brooklyn Dodgers to retire from the game. Concerning the franchise relocation from Brooklyn to Los Angeles after the 1957 season, Don Drysdale said, ” If you had asked the players on the Dodgers to take a vote, it might have been 25-0 to stay in Brooklyn. I would have voted with the majority.”