Opinion: Dodger Talk ... and Talk ... and Talk ... from President Carter’s Mom

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Jimmy Carter’s mom loooooved the Dodgers -- the Brooklyn Dodgers, he told me in an interview this week; ‘she adopted the Dodgers as her team because of them letting Jackie Robinson play.’’

While Miz Lillian ‘hated’ seeing the team move to Los Angeles, she reconciled herself, and followed the games via a huge antenna set up out by her fishpond in Georgia. Somehow, while Carter was in the White House, Miz Lillian finagled Tommy Lasorda’s phone number. ‘On occasion she would call him on the phone and give him a hard time.’’ Now, whenever Lasorda runs into Carter, he reminds the former president ‘that he’s glad that my mother used to have his phone number, but he’s kinda glad that it’s more quiet now.’’

Carter was in town promoting his Mother’s Day homage book, ‘A Remarkable Mother.’’ Want to hear the entire interview? Click here.