Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
Weaver Working It Out, Angels Are A Fluid Group: Halolinks
...that will become "The Baseball Paper of the World," publishes its first issue. 1946 - In Daytona Beach, the Brooklyn Dodgers take the field against their minor-league farm team, the...
The City with the Most Professional Basketball Championships Is?
...Harlem Globetrotters and the Oshkosh All-Stars. an all white team, before the NBA was formed and baseball was integrated by the admission of Jackie Robinson on the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
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Giant Home Runs: The 5 Most Important Blasts In Giants History
...with No. 72. 'The Shot Heard 'Round the World' The New York Giants came from way back to tie the Brooklyn Dodgers on the last day of the season and force a best-of-three playoff. The...
Sarah's Take: Koufax a legend with class
...but thought he needed more experience. When Al Campanis saw him pitch, he saw enormous potential and convinced the Brooklyn Dodgers to make Koufax a bonus baby, meaning the team couldn't...
Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey's Explosive Revelation
Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers' president, made an explosive revelation at the Wilberforce State University annual football dinner on Feb. 16, 1948. In a candid and passionate speech...
Nine to Know: New York Rivalry Center Fielders
Back in the day, the baseball rivalry was a three-way, as the New York Yankees, the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers battled for the hearts of New Yorkers, the sports...
Will sports follow military's end of DADT?
...inane following World War II. This helped pave the way for Jackie Robinson's heroic and historic entrance with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Afterall, if the macho guys in the military can sleep...
Mickey Mantle's Most Important Catch
...Oct. 8, 1956, Mickey Mantle had one of the best games of his great career. Don Larsen and Sal Maglie The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees each had beaten the other twice in...
"The Latino color line in the majors shifted depending on what the owners needed," Shultz said. "They let light-skinned Latinos play in '40s because the war created a shortage of major leaguers, but those Latinos couldn't be darker than a certain shade. "Luis Olmo played outfield for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the early '40s before Jackie Robinson broke the color line," he said. "Olmo was from Arecibo so I met him in town when I was a kid. My father was darker-skinned than he was."
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Weekend reading: Poor Ned Colletti gets no love
...32 teams listed, but not one from the Los Angeles Dodgers. The only Dodgers team included is the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost in the World Series to the Yankees. The Hall has oddly...
Suzanne Farrell Ballet's 'Haieff Divertimento' whirls between intimacy, tension
What a game-changer of a year, 1947: Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Truman Doctrine helped set the Cold War to deep freeze. On...
The city is losing some of its soul
...for a song along the Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO waterfront, including the glitzy Bossert Hotel, where the Brooklyn Dodgers once celebrated a World Series win. This week, I was granted...
Fight for all Cubans
...coverage to Jackie Robinson and the terrible treatment he had to endure in his first year as a player for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Unfortunately, all that Pitts writes about is true.
