Can’t we all get a long ball?Among...

Can’t we all get a long ball?Among the 53,529 fans attending the bumbling Dodgers’ home opener against St. Louis was Rodney G. King, as pictured on A1.

“Rodney is here as a guest of (outfielders) Darryl (Strawberry) and Eric (Davis),” explained Jay Lucas, Dodgers director of publicity.

The verdict, in case you didn’t hear, was 9-7--in favor of the Cardinals.

Driving for dollars: Southbound commuters on the Hollywood Freeway, seeing a chance to pick up a little extra money, slammed on their brakes near the Magnolia Boulevard exit about 6 a.m. CHP officers counted about 45 drivers and passengers who had scrambled out of their cars to scoop up loose currency.

Once the scavengers were shooed away, CHP officers recovered “a small sum--under $150,” Officer Ernie Garcia said. “All the recovered money was in $1 denominations.”

No collisions ensued, partly because of CHP safety procedures.

Garcia said that “the source of the money has not been identified.” Nor did any motorists contact the CHP about finding money.

List of the Day: Southland groups mentioned in Charles Downey’s book, “Stabbed With a Wedge of Cheese and Other Cultural Oddities”:

* Assn. to Deter People From Calling Toilets Johns (ADPFCTJ), Chatsworth (“Johns who go to prostitutes are a different club,” notes founder John Jackson).

* National Organization Taunting Safety and Fairness Everywhere (NOT SAFE), Montecito (its proposals include a requirement that aircraft taxi the entire way to their destinations).

* Foot and Toe Museum, Long Beach (9,000 items of foot-related paraphernalia, including one wall covered with vanity plates that carry podiatric messages, such as CORNS).

* Visual Lunacy Society, Balboa Island (creator of offbeat rubber stamps, such as “Returned, Signature of the Pope Required,” and “Resubmit, in Arabic”).

* Museum of Jurassic Technology, Santa Monica (don’t miss the collection of extinct 19th-Century French moths).

Movie moms: L.A. visitor Susie Sandack asks that if Hollywood is serious about making this the Year of the Woman, “why not put studio execs to a real test? For instance, how about changing the name of Warner Bros.? After all, where would Warner Brothers be without Warner Mothers?”

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After Only in L.A. ran Terri Barker’s photo of the L.A. Cafe on the island of Crete, Scott De Roy sent in his shot of the Allee de Los Angeles in Bordeaux. “Here I spent all that money to get that far from L.A. and I find this,” De Roy said. He added that it is a beautiful alley, though.