By Jon Weisman
It was 40 years ago that I first began paying attention to Major League Baseball, but in those initial years, Ashley Whippet might have been as famous for me as any Dodger. He was as great an athlete as I knew.
He was, basically, a dog who could just about catch any Frisbee thrown anywhere on the planet.
And it was 40 years ago tonight, on August 5, 1974, that he made his debut – unannounced, and to be sure, uninvited – at Dodger Stadium.