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Fernando Valenzuela Wins Cy Young On this day in 1981, Fernando
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Fernandomania – Society for American Baseball Research
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As Dodgers honor Fernando Valenzuela, revisiting Fernandomania - ESPN
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Fernandomania made it all the way to Cooperstown