The Los Angeles Dodgers are planning to add Ron Cey to their Legends of Dodger Baseball class during the 2025 season. Cey’s celebration is expected to take place during a pregame ceremony at Dodger Stadium on Friday, July 18.
That coincides with the Dodgers announcing a Ron Cey Legends of Dodger Baseball bobblehead giveaway for that night’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers. It’s among 21 Dodgers bobbleheads currently scheduled on the team’s promotions and giveaways calendar for the 2025 season.
The Dodgers established their Legends of Dodger Baseball group in 2019 as recognition of franchise greats and their impact both on and off the field.
Inductees receive a plaque honoring achievements during their careers with the Dodgers, which also go on permanent display at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers also started giving honorees a custom blue blazer.
Those in the Legends of Dodger Baseball can overlap with the Dodger Stadium Ring of Honor, whose members had their respective jersey numbers retired by the Dodgers.
Cey spent 12 of his 17 Major League seasons with the Dodgers after being drafted by the team in the third round in 1968. Cey made his MLB debut in 1971, though only appeared in two games. He played in 11 games the following year before taking on a full-time role with the team.
Cey famously helped the Dodgers make MLB history with the ‘Longest Running Infield’ alongside Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes and Bill Russell.
The legendary Dodgers infield played their first game together on June 23, 1973, in the second contest of a twilight doubleheader at Dodger Stadium against the Cincinnati Reds.
What was otherwise a nondescript home game marked the start of an MLB record for longest infield group kept together. Garvey, Lopes, Cey and Russell went on to form the Dodgers’ infield for eight and a half seasons, culminating with winning the 1981 World Series.
From 1974-1981, the Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey infield made a combined 21 All-Star Games and were part of Dodgers teams that won four National League West titles, four NL pennants (1974, 1977, 1978, 1981) and the aforementioned World Series title.
The Dodgers’ historic infield was broken up when Lopes got traded to the Oakland Athletics for Lance Hudson on Feb. 8, 1982.
Cey played for the Chicago Cubs from 1983-1986 before concluding his career with the A’s in 1987.
Legends of Dodger Baseball history
Don Newcombe, Steve Garvey and Fernando Valenzuela made up the inaugural Legends of Dodger Baseball class in 2019.
Since then, the Legends of Dodger Baseball group has grown to include Maury Wills, Kirk Gibson, Orel Hershiser and Dusty Baker.
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