Two hundred and twenty-five years of Dodger Blue.

Mark grew up near Dayton, Ohio. He became a Dodgers fan at the age of nine after writing to every team in Major League Baseball — and the Dodgers were the one organization that wrote him back. They mailed him a personal letter and a stack of memorabilia, including a baseball signed by the entire 1963 World Series-winning roster. From that day on, as he tells anyone who will listen: Dodger Blue — it's in my blood.

Fifteen years ago, Mark became one of the first independent bloggers ever granted a seat in the Vin Scully Pressbox at Dodger Stadium. The photo above is from his first night up there.

He's been married thirty years and is semi-retired, living just south of Indianapolis. His wife runs two restaurants in Bargersville, Indiana — The Baldwin and Lola's Table. Mark is chairman of US Water Systems (parent of Penguin Water and Waterlogix). His book The Mountain Mover is out July 2026. Five children. Seven grandchildren.

Bear was born June 14, 1948, at Hoover Street Hospital in Los Angeles. His childhood carried him from LA to Minnesota, Iowa, and Nevada — including seven years in foster care, from 1958 to 1965, that he's never been shy about talking about.

He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1965 and served until 1974, a radar technician on the HAWK missile system in Korea, Texas, and Germany. Country music was his other career — he played stages around the country, and on September 9, 1981 he sang the National Anthem before a game at Dodger Stadium.

Today Bear is the site historian. If a post starts with "Remembering: …", it's his. He takes Dodger fans on walks down memory lane more often than just about anyone in the sport. Three children, five grandchildren, one great-granddaughter. Retired since 2010, living in Canon City, Colorado.

Jeff was born June 9, 1952, in Hollywood, California. He spent forty-nine-plus years in the San Fernando Valley (Granada Hills) before moving to El Dorado Hills, in the Sacramento area, where he writes most days from the same Starbucks.

Married fifty-two years. Three children — the family lost the middle one in August 2019, a grief Jeff has written about with the same plainspoken honesty he brings to every minor-league box score. His son was an All-American third baseman at the University of Nevada, Reno, drafted by the Phillies, traded to the Red Sox, and earned a 2004 World Series ring. His daughter is a schoolteacher.

This is Jeff's tenth year covering the Dodgers' farm system. His Minor League coverage is, in our completely unbiased opinion, the best you'll find anywhere on the internet.