Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

On This Day in History: August 26 Another First for Brooklyn! Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
It was a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers — at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Announcer Red Barber was in the catbird seat, ...

The Oisk wins again BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
By Ed Shakespeare Brooklyn Dodger great Carl Erskine was feted at Keyspan Park on Sunday. In addition to performing the usual functions — throwing out and ...

Erskine Takes the Mound, and Suddenly It’s 1955 New York Times - United States
They had grown up watching Dodgers games on television, and were now representing the Brooklyn Dodgers of the Men’s Senior Baseball League. ...

FROM THE BROOKLYN AERIE Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
The baseball team that Brooklyn had in the big leagues had many names before it was known as the Dodgers. One of these names along with the Superbas and the ...

Dodgers rehire Alston, August 14 1958 Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The Times had reported the Dodgers' faith in Alston earlier in the season when owner Walter O'Malley backed the manager during an interview in Brooklyn (of ...

On This Day in History: August 13 Big Noise At Ebbets Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... 1951, in observance of Music Appreciation Night, 2426 instrument-playing Dodger fans formed the...

Kahn recalls stories of summer Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Kahn assumed his lofty ranking in 1972, when he published "The Boys of Summer," a poignant retrospective on the Brooklyn Dodgers teams he covered for the ...

Call it ‘Brooklyn South’ BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
... his hitting coach was Joe “Ducky” Medwick, a Hall-Of-Famer who played mostly with the Cardinals, but had two stints with the Brooklyn Dodgers. ...

Portsmouth sports legend's loyalty to the city makes him an ace ... The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
For football's Brooklyn Dodgers and later for the New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference, he operated out of the single-wing backfield, ...

Dodgers Had Rocky First Year in LA 89.3 KPCC - CA,USA
Fifty years ago, the Brooklyn Dodgers moved west to become the Los Angeles Dodgers. In June of 1958, Los Angeles voters approved the land swap that would ...

Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, and Dem Bums (Pt. I of II) Bleacher Report - Menlo Park,CA,USA
There's more to the Dodgers than just LA Who's the best of the Brooklyn Era, and will they measure up to LA's ballplayers? Brett Moore does his best to find ...

RBI players get lesson from Newcombe MLB.com - USA
Newcombe, the Brooklyn Dodgers legend who joined the club in 1949, two years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, gave the keynote address at a ...

On This Day in History: August 5 Man Who Revolutionized The ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 08-05-2008 BROOKLYN — Throughout the 1930s, the Brooklyn Dodgers had floundered on the field ...

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

O'Malley a Hall of Famer? Brooklyn says no Napa Valley Register - Napa,CA,USA
Walter O’Malley, the owner of the Dodgers from 1950 to 1997, did more than just move his Brooklyn Dodgers out of New York in 1958. ...

On This Day in History: August 1 Ebbets Field Goes Opera Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 08-01-2008 EBBETS FIELD — On Aug. 1, 1925, open air performances of opera started at Ebbets ...

Amateur baseball remembered St. James Plaindealer - St. James,MN,USA
By Mark Anderson, Sports Writer Richard Bolin was there when St. James signed Cy Buker, who had played with the Brooklyn Dodgers two years before. ...

DILBECK: Former Dodgers owner O'Malley finally gets vindication Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Attendance was in decline, Ebbets Field was small and badly aging. But Robert Moss, the powerful head of New York's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, ...

Known for move to LA, O'Malley moves into Hall Ventura County Star - Camarillo,CA,USACOOPERSTOWN, NY
— Former Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. ...

Late Dodgers Owner Inducted into Hall of Fame ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
O'Malley's association with the Dodgers began in 1932, when he was assigned to the team's Board of Directors by the Brooklyn Trust Co., at a time when the ...

Tom Lasorda still bleeds Dodger blue after all these years Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
From there I was sent to one of the Dodgers' three triple-A affiliates, the Montreal Royals. In 1954 I had finally made my way to Brooklyn and was playing ...

Walter O'Malley treated Dodgers, and fans, like family Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The Brooklyn Dodgers owner was buying the most menial Dodgers employee a World Series ring commemorating the Dodgers' first world championship. ...

O’Malley and Kuhn Enter Hall, Forever Linked by Bold Moves New York Times - United States
The Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley exploited baseball’s manifest destiny by moving the franchise to Los Angeles in 1958, still angering the Brooklyn fans. ...

On further review, O'Malley got bum rap Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
In the HBO documentary "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush," New York University president John Sexton said, "Walter O'Malley is down there in the ...

Making the big move to the HOF Daily Pennsylvanian - Philadelphia,PA,USA
In 1957, he moved the Dodgers from the rundown Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, where he built, privately financed, and helped to design ...

When pigs fly BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
The memory of the Dodgers desertion of Brooklyn is still vivid for the many former Brooklyn Dodger fans in the stands at Keyspan Park. ...

‘Shotgun’ Shuba returns to Brooklyn BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
Shuba was on hand for a signing of his book, “My Memories as a Brooklyn Dodger,” but one of those memories was a single, natural act of humanity that came ...