Los Angeles Dodgers

...were, others would say it for you. On the night he swung at three consecutive pitches and hit three consecutive home runs against the Dodgers in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series, Jackson was sharing drinks with then-New York Gov. Hugh Carey...

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...evil, James Andrew Walsh). One night, Callahan decides to shift production from glitzy Manhattan to Brooklyn to capitalize on the popularity of the Dodgers during their 1955 World Series run. On the absolute opposite end of the...

In this article: Manhattan, Brooklyn, 1955 World Series, and Dodgers

Romans? What league did they play in? I preferred the view of Manhattan advertising executive and Mets fans Roger Yager, who told Goldman: "We had to get something to replace the Dodgers." If you are under 13 years of age you may read...

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...calamity of having two baseball teams abandon it in the same year, at essentially the same minute. The Dodgers meant everything to Brooklyn. The Giants, at one time, meant as much to Manhattan as anything. And the hole that their departure...

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In the seventeen year span 1941 through 1957 (after which the Giants and Dodgers left New York City for California), the Yankees appeared in the World Series twelve times, failing to reach the Series only in 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948 and 1954.

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...in New York, first in Manhattan and later in Brooklyn, near Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. (Mr. Wolf became a Dodgers fan.) It wasn't long before the young Mr. Wolf was back in Germany, this time with the Army Signal Corps,...

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...Harbor and the Manhattan skyline. Besides hosting the Dodgers' post-World Series gala in 1955, the hotel served as home to many Dodgers in the 1950s, including Johnny Podres, Don Zimmer and Sandy Amoros. The Witnesses have been a mainstay...

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...doughnut that he left in a microwave too long. Beimel Beimel, a bullpen mainstay for the Dodgers' 2006 NL wild-card team, decided to drop into a Manhattan bar and watch the Eagles and Packers on "Monday Night Football" two nights...

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