June 23 in Dodgers History: Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play first game as Dodgers infield (1973)

On June 23, 1973, Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell played together in the Los Angeles Dodgers infield for the first time in the second game of a doubleheader against Cincinnati. This marked the beginning of the longest-running infield in Major League Baseball history, a record that still stands.

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