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My memorable meeting with Dodger hero Johnny Podres New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
By BENJAMIN POMERANCE Johnny Podres was the toast of his hometown of Witherbee, NY, after his Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Yankees in Game 7 of the 1955 World ...

Last spring training in Dodgertown OCRegister - Santa Ana,CA,USA
"Dodgertown is my memory factory," Scully said. "But they're not the Brooklyn Dodgers anymore. They're the Los Angeles Dodgers."

National Football League came to the Hat City before it went to... Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
The Dodgers played their home games at storied Ebbets Field. The Dodgers and Trojans played at least four preseason games at Lee's Field in Danbury. ...

Robinson, King share more than a birth month Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
His closest associate from his earliest days with the Brooklyn Dodgers was Red Barber, the Voice of the Brooklyn Dodgers during Robinson's playing days. ...

The Dodgers of 1958: Ed Roebuck Los Angeles Dodgers - Los Angeles,CA,USA
In 2005, Roebuck attended the 50th anniversary reunion of the 1955 world champion Brooklyn Dodgers. Roebuck brought two very special guests to the field ...

Dodgers remember Jackie Robinson Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Davis recounted how as a high school senior in Brooklyn, he was days away from signing with the New York Yankees when he received a call from Robinson. ...

• How would Jackie spur black participation? Colorado Rockies News - USA
The Dodgers emerged as the first true America's Team as those walls of exclusion came tumbling down, Roberto Clemente -- another original Brooklyn signee ...

Dodgers help kids remember Jackie MLB.com - USA
1, and Don Newcombe, Robinson's good friend and former teammate in Brooklyn, who at 81 stands as one of the last firsthand witnesses of the struggles he and ...

'55 Dodgers Late Innings Chicago Sports Weekly - Chicago,IL,USA
Johnny Podres, the left handed pitching hero of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ only World Championship in 1955, had died in a small hospital in Glen Falls, ...

Dodgers to host "Jackie Robinson Legacy Day" at Dodger Stadium Los Angeles Dodgers - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Robinson joined the Dodgers on April 15, 1947, at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier and becoming the first African ...

Hotel Where Dodgers Celebrated a Title Is Up for Sale New York Times - United States
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ The historic Hotel Bossert, where the Brooklyn Dodgers celebrated their first and last World Series championship more than a half-century ...

Book Review: Branch Rickey tells the story of the other man in ... Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Until recent years, more than cursory knowledge of Brooklyn Dodgers president and general manager Branch Rickey had been limited to those baseball students ...

GORDON WHITE: 1955: When Next Year Finally Arrived for Fans of ... Southern Pines Pilot - Southern Pines,NC,USA
Brooklyn Dodger fans always represented the epitome of faithful and believing followers. These streetwise city dwellers were uncharacteristically naïve when ...

Podres' death brings back memories of '55 Tennessee Journalist - Knoxville,TN,USA
By Roger Hoover I was sad to read that Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Johnny Podres died on Sunday. He was the Most Valuable Player of the 1955 World Series, ...

The Dodgers of 1958: Roy Campanella MLB.com - USA
Just a few months earlier, Campanella never anticipated the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn, even when a stalemate between team president Walter O'Malley and New ...

O’Malley broke hearts, but taught us a lesson Buffalo News - NY, United States
Bob McGee, in his book “The Greatest Ballpark Ever,” tells about an old man who went to Ebbets Field, the team’s Brooklyn home, nearly every day after the ...