Though he didn’t know him personally, like many of the fans who attended Wednesday morning’s funeral Mass for FernandoValenzuela, Luis Dircio of Los Angeles felt impacted by the Dodger great.
“It’s hard to believe, no?” El Zurdo — “The Lefty” — would be FernandoValenzuela, the youngest of 12 children from this desert hamlet in northwest Mexico who would corral a blend of ...