Thursday, July 26, 2007

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts July 26, 2007

Lords Of Flatbush RealGMBaseball.com - IL,USA
In the excellent new HBO baseball documentary "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush," executive producers Rick Bernstein and Ross Greenburg once again ...

'I Watched Him. Everybody Did.' Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Podres had grown up in Upstate New York (where he still lives and knows all the good fishing spots) and was a huge fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, ...

Newcombe an eyewitness to history MLB.com - USA...
the Dodgers and visiting teams and also talking with members of the media about his days as one of the famed "Boys of Summer" with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Brooklyn Memory: My All-Star Parade Ground Team Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Steve Lembo, from Boro Park, caught a few games for the Brooklyn Dodgers and then spent a long career as a scout for the Brooklyn and then the LA Dodgers. ...

'The shot heard 'round the world' and a life-long love affair Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA
... the Dodgers led the deciding game at the Giants' Polo Grounds home field, 4-2, in the bottom of the ninth, with Brooklyn's ace pitcher, Ralph Branca, ...

GORDON WHITE: DEM BUMS: Visit to Ebbets Field Was a Short Walk ... Southern Pines Pilot - Southern Pines,NC,USA
In the summer of 1942, between my sophomore and junior years in high school, I lived in Brooklyn, less than a mile from Ebbets Field. ...

Jackie Robinson: Fascinating Hero Newsweek - USA
Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, the first African-American admitted into the Major Leagues, is at first base at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, April 11, 1947. ...

Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One ... PopMatters - Chicago,IL,USA
Hodges was born in this small Midwestern town, but his life’s journey took him to New York as a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. ...

Monday, July 23, 2007

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts July 23, 2007

On This Day in History: July 23 Birth Anniversary of the 'Captain' Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
So Reese was sold to the Brooklyn Dodgers for a reported $40000 after his second year at Louisville. Reese was bought up by Brooklyn in 1940, envisioned as ...

Ghosts of Flatbush Still With Us Tot Holmes (subscription) - Gothenburg,NE,USA...
the traumatic switch from the right coast to the left coast by the Los Angeles, nee Brooklyn, Dodgers in 1957 after their final season in New York. ...

Ex-Dodger Don Newcombe supports Barry BondsNewsday - Long Island,NY,USAThe Cyclones, who are commemorating the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers this season, raised a No. 36 banner in honor of Newcombe.

No. 42 broke more than baseball color line Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
As a Columbia graduate student and part-time Long Island Press sportswriter, I took a subway often to Ebbets Field in the spring of 1956 to see Robinson ...

Even in his twilight, Jackie was still Jackie The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
Yesterday, as it was Dodgers 8 and Yankees 3, Jackie cemented both arguments. If there was anything typical about the Brooklyn victory from this seat it was ...

On This Day in History:April 18 Ebbets Buried at Green-Wood Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
The team to play in the stadium was called the Brooklyn Superbas and later the Brooklyn Dodgers. Some friends advised Ebbets against building the stadium ...

Beginning of the end: 50 years ago this week, Dodgers began final ... BrooklynPapers.com - Brooklyn,NY,USA
In 1957, the Dodgers drew just 1.03 million fans to Ebbets Field, their beloved, 32000-seat bandbox. That attendence figure was nearly half of the team’s ...

Branch Rickey Changes Sports—and America—Forever American Heritage - USA
Sixty years ago today, on April 10, 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Montreal Royals, one of their own minor league teams. ...

Friday, July 20, 2007

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts 7/20/07

A Jersey Guy's Roots in Brooklyn New York Times
- United StatesAfter being drubbed for two homers by Yogi Berra in the seventh game of the 1956 World Series, Newcombe left Ebbets Field and drove home to New Jersey, ...

Brooklyn Baseball Memories: The Would-be Brooklyn Dodger Whose ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948 -- one year after Jackie Robinson -- Jethroe soon proved as able as Robinson to stand out in formally all-white high ...

At least O'Malley, unlike Modell, had a good reason Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton,OH,USA
But if you watch the HBO special Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush, it's hard not to think of Art Modell and how he, like Dodgers owner Walter ...

Book Review: Branch Rickey, Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman Baseball Toaster - Alameda,CA,USA...
Rickey for his profligate spending, especially losing several hundred thousand dollars on an ill-fated pro football team called the Brooklyn Dodgers. ...

Former Dodger, 96, still a hit in town Chicago Suburban News - Batavia,IL,USA
After playing on several semi-pro teams, he befriended a professional baseball umpire who told him the Brooklyn Dodgers were looking for an outfielder. ...

LOCAL SPORTS: The two lives of Sal Maglie Tonawanda News
- North Tonawanda,NY,USAHe was the last major leaguer to play for the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees. But, The Barber was probably the city’s favorite ...

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Monday, July 16, 2007

Brooklyn Dodger T.V. Alert

SNY (Sportsnet New York) will air a one hour documentary called Gil Hodges: The Quiet Man. The documentary will premiere on July 17 (Tuesday) at 8:30pm EST.

Schedule
July 17 8:30pm EST
July 18 1:00pm EST
July 21 5:00pm EST

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts 7/15/07

Bridge Named After Dodgers-Mets Great Celebrates 70th Anniversary Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA...
President David Moretti welcomed the family of the late Brooklyn Dodgers great and Mets manager Gil Hodges, whose name was added to the bridge in 1978. ...



Extra innings for fans keeping the faith Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
It's easy to find Brooklyn Dodgers fans in the metropolitan area who truly miss their beloved Bums. They still bleed from this 50-year-old wound, ...



News briefs: White House honors Jackie with T-ball game CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first black major league baseball player. ...



It's 50 years since the Dodgers, Giants left us Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
I really owe that joy - and heartbreak - to the Brooklyn Dodgers. My mother and father, both Brooklyn born and bred, were tremendous fans of the team. ...



When Jersey City was a pawn for the Dodgers Newark Star Ledger - NJ, USA
It also foretold a series of events re-examined with the expected angst and nostalgia in a new documentary, "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush," ...



Video of the Day: Brooklyn Trolleys Gothamist - NY,USA
Watching the Brooklyn Dodgers documentary on HBO made us dig for some more footage on YouTube. The team had many nicknames, one being the Trolley Dodgers, ...



On This Day in History:July 12 Ebbets Field's Only All-Star Game Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
The 1942 game was scheduled for cozy "little" Ebbets Field but was played at the more spacious Polo Grounds as a benefit for war charities. ...


A 'Blue Lens' Look At The Brooklyn Dodgers Jamestown Post Journal - Jamestown,NY,USA

Written by Bonnie Crosby, the missive detailed a book she had co-authored called, Through a Blue Lens: The Brooklyn Dodgers Photographs of Barney Stein, ...

Final dodgers pitch Once more tossed again Courier Life Publications - Brooklyn,NY,USA

On September 24, 1957, Dem Bums Joe Pignatano and Danny McDevitt took to the mound at Ebbets Field for the final pitch of their last home game - little ...

Dodger Great Ralph Branca inspires kids Bay Ridge Courier - Brooklyn,NY,USA

Former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca arrived to a warm borough welcome when he stopped by Intermediate School 285 in Flatbush to help unveil a mural ...

Brooklyn Bums -- A Candid Lens Forward - New York,NY,USA

Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider: legendary Brooklyn Dodgers whose images appear in hundreds of iconic photos that ...


Sunday, July 15, 2007

HBO's Ghost of Flatbush News Links


'Dodgers' documentary on HBO is a winner Buffalo News
- NY, United StatesHBO Sports has another winner in its latest nostalgic documentary, "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush." The two-hour film, which premieres on the ...

The Bums are Still a Rush Newsweek
- USANo, it was the Brooklyn Dodgers, a team that came to symbolize the American dream. For fans looking for a dose of baseball nostalgia that the All-Star Game ...

Brooklyn Dodgers resurrected in HBO documentary Sun-Sentinel.com
- Fort Lauderdale,FL,USABY JENNIFER FREY HBO's Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush is low on drama and high on nostalgia, with Brooklyn itself (referred to at one point as ...

Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush Variety
- USA'We're the Brooklyn Dodgers. Whether we move 3000 miles or 30 miles, we will not be the Brooklyn Dodgers.' " Talking to Dodger fans of the era about the ...

Brooklyn Dodgers: Ghosts of Flatbush Newsday
- Long Island,NY,USAMemory turns into elegy and fades into nostalgia in "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush," HBO's two-hour tribute to the team's heyday, ...

HBO Documentary Brings Back Memories Washington Post
- United StatesBy Leonard Shapiro The field of my own dreams has always been Ebbets Field, that bandbox of a ballpark where my once beloved Brooklyn Dodgers played until ...

Last Exit in Brooklyn New York Sun
- New York,NY,USAHodges was one of the Boys of Summer, as the Brooklyn Dodgers were known in those days (though most preferred to call them "da bums"). ...

Documentary on Dodgers a trip back in time OCRegister
- Orange County,CA,USAThat's what Major League Baseball and HBO have done in the "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush" documentary, to air at 8 pm Wednesday on HBO...

Denis Hamill New York Daily News
- New York,NY,USAI also remember being in awe of sitting in this place where the Brooklyn Dodgers played the mystifying game of baseball that gave my father so damned much ...

TV-RADIO NOTEBOOK HBO's documentary tugs at Goren's heart Houston Chronicle
- United States... is one of several Brooklyn natives -- along with Larry King, actor Lou Gossett and comedian Pat Cooper -- who were interviewed for Brooklyn Dodgers: The ...

SAUNDERS: HBO brings 'Bums' to life Rocky Mountain News
- Denver,CO,USABy Dusty Saunder, Special to the Rocky You'll discover during the opening scenes that Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush is much more than a ...

New York the center of these baseball tales Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
Early in HBO's documentary about the Brooklyn Dodgers, narrator Liev Schreiber explains, "America had spent the first half of the decade [1940s] reshaping ...

Stanley Crouch: Baseball's story,America's story Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
In 1957, the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and left Brooklyn, where baseball had been integrated in 1947 through the luminous reserve and volatile talent of ...

Boys of Summer are back Dick Heller Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
The Brooklyn Dodgers live on." Thus does narrator Liev Schreiber neatly summarize the history and demise of perhaps baseball's most democratic and accursed ...

Film details Dodgers' move to LA Los Angeles Times
- CA,USAThe story of what led to the Dodgers' leaving Brooklyn is a major part of a two-hour documentary, "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush," that will air ...

'Ghosts Of Flatbush' Brings Back Painful Memories WNBC New York, NY USA

By Otis Livingston, Sports Anchor NEW YORK -- I have to admit when the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 season it worked out pretty good ...

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