Sunday, August 26, 2007

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

vin scully is voice of baseball Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
29, has been the voice of the Dodgers for 57 years, dating to their days in Brooklyn. It is the longest tenure of any broadcaster with a single club in ...

A half-century ago, a baseball era ended in New York and another ... SI.com - USA
"We want to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn,'' he said. "The Dodgers belong in Brooklyn.'' It was, he said, the intransigence of Moses that forced his hand. ...

Bankhead a baseball pioneer MLB.com - USA
For Bankhead, a rookie pitching in middle relief for the Brooklyn Dodgers, was making his debut on that summer afternoon in Ebbets Field. ...

Ray McNulty: Devil Rays in a Dodger town Sebastian Sun (subscription) - Sebastian,FL,USA
But the relationship began to unravel as Brooklyn Dodgers fans, who created the love affair between the team and town in the 1940s and '50s, started dying ...

Jackie's legend lives on BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
Yet 50 years after that move, the Brooklyn Dodgers are still news, as recent books, articles, and an HBO movie can attest. Part of that continued interest ...

On This Day in History: August 16 A Lonely Ebbets Without Dodgers Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
A deep gloom hung over Brooklyn on August 16, 1955, when O'Malley announced that the Dodgers would play seven of the next season's home games at Roosevelt ...

Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957 Time Out New York - New York,NY,USA
... equation: The unparalleled success of the Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants as a metaphor for the city's rising fortunes after WWII. ...

Sour Notes Are Sweet for Sym-Phony of Brooklyn New York Times - United States
... in 1939 to lead a famously off-key chorus of cheers for its beloved Brooklyn Dodgers, who left New York for Los Angeles after the 1957 baseball season. ...

CYCLONES HONOR LEGEND ROBINSON New York Post - New York,NY,USA
By TIM BONTEMPS August 13, 2007 -- On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers in a game against ...

Brooklyn Memories Why Did the Dodgers Leave Brooklyn? Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
The Dodgers had left Brooklyn. It was with melancholy, and sadness and depression, but not without rancor that the Flatbush Faithful bid their beloved Bums ...

Exhibit recalls baseball's glory days Palm Beach Post - FL, United States
By CHARLES PASSY An usher's uniform from Ebbets Field, the storied stadium that was a second home to generations of Brooklyn Dodgers fans. ...

The fire in Big Newk still burns BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
In fact, he once started both games of a double-header for the Dodgers -- and shut out Philadelphia in the first game and pitched seven innings of the second ...