Family, friends and fans pay tribute to Fernando Valenzuela

Carlos Santana and his wife, Susannah, stood outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in downtown Los Angeles, gazing at the casket of Fernando Valenzuela, the beloved Mexican pitcher for the Dodgers.

The couple watched as Valenzuela’s family made their way inside the cathedral, followed by the pallbearers who helped move the pitcher’s casket adorned with white roses inside the building.

“I’m saddened,” Santana, 72, said as he made his way in. “I know we’re going to go at one point or another, but I think he left us a little too early.”

“I’m very hurt to see him go,” his wife said. “He was a great man, a great baseball player, and he meant a lot to Los Angeles and to our people.”

Read full article at LA Times.