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“Fernando wasn’t very dedicated to the people of his barrio — beyond his own family,” said Luna, the former league president.

Their continued refusal to erect a memorial to the barrios upon which Dodger Stadium was built contradicts the spirit of a city that wants to grapple with all of its history, comfortable and not.

How he inspired Latinos to root for a franchise whose original sin was building a ballpark on the site of barrios that the city had demolished in the name of progress.

They stayed in the West Side barrio even as the city weathered an economic downturn.

It was a tough start though as he left his family's home in a barrio in Colombia's second-largest city Medellin to pursue that dream.