By Irene Aguilera, Pasadena City College

Pasadena City College alumnus Mark Langill is a history buff and Dodgers fan, and he makes his living as the official historian for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Talk about living the dream! Mark's been with the Dodgers since 1994, but has had a lifetime love affair with baseball since he was a child.

"When I was in kindergarten, someone gave me a book, and it was Paul Zimmerman's history of the Dodgers, published in 1959," says Langill. "Why someone would give a 5-year-old a grown-up book like that, I don't know. Kismet, I guess. Then in 1974, someone brought me the packet of press notes from a game at Dodger Stadium. I cherished those, slept with them under my pillow, and started to think that maybe I, too, could someday, somehow, be a part of that."

Mark attended South Pasadena High and began his college years at PCC studying history and journalism. He covered sporting events for the campus newspaper and even wrote articles for the Pasadena Star News. After graduating in 1986, he went on to California State University, Northridge.

He remembers his days at PCC with great fondness and says the mirrored pools always evoke memories for him. "Whenever I drive down Colorado Boulevard and pass the mirrored pools, I think of that scene in The Jackie Robinson Story, where Jackie and Ruby Dee are sitting at the mirrored pools, and I think-wow, I went to school there too!"

Mark has penned four books so far, and although he's not currently working on anything new he says, "The great thing about this job is that I'm always learning something new every day."