After homering off Sandy Koufax and Johnny Podres in 1958, an injury ended Dale Heidel’s baseball career. He returned to the ballpark, wearing his original jersey, last Sunday. — If you ask Dale Heidel about his time as a pro baseball player, he’ll tell you it was no big deal. “I was a split-squad minor leaguer,” Heidel said. “I don’t want any publicity.” But if you had asked Sandy Koufax in 1958, he might have said otherwise.
