Dodger Manager Jim Tracy and San Francisco Giant Manager Dusty Baker exchanged lineup cards before the teams met Monday night in Dodger Stadium. They did not come to blows. No player cracked a bat over the head of the opposing catcher. No player went into the crowd to attack a fan.

One of baseball’s longest, most storied, most bitter rivalries resumed when the Dodgers and Giants, with a National League wild-card berth on the line, opened a four-game series in Dodger Stadium.



For the record: For The Record

Los Angeles Times Wednesday September 18, 2002 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 11 inches; 402 words Type of Material: Correction

Baseball--Former New York Giant manager Bill Terry’s comment about the Dodgers’ pennant chances in 1934--"The Dodgers? Are they still in the league?"--was made before the start of the 1934 season, not during the pennant race, as was reported in a Sports story Tuesday on the Dodger-Giant rivalry.



But although fans of either team still look upon the other with disdain, with chants of “Beat L.A.! Beat L.A.!” echoing through Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco and “Giants [stink]!, Giants [stink]!” in Dodger Stadium, the violence and contempt that marked this rivalry from its origins in New York and for several decades on the West Coast has subsided.