Sunday, June 29, 2008

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

Jackie Robinson Stands Alone Bleacher Report - Menlo Park,CA,USA
Despite his impressive list of accolades in athletics, Robinson made his greatest contributions outside of Ebbets Field. The retired second baseman spurred ...

New plaque honors Jackie Robinson Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
Nearly a half-century after he was inducted into the hall, the late Brooklyn Dodgers great received a rare honor Wednesday — a new plaque that pays tribute ...

New Robinson plaque unveiled Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA...
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was a simple litany of the highlights of his sensational career with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 through 1956. ...

An updated profile in courage PennLive.com - Harrisburg,PA,USA...
the plaque's inscription only referenced Robinson's on-field accomplishments during his 10-year career with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947-56. ...

New plaque unveiled paying tribute to Robinson's cultural impact - MLBvESPN - USA
Nearly a half-century after he was inducted into the Hall, the late Brooklyn Dodgers great received a rare honor Wednesday -- a new plaque that pays tribute ...

A Fine Piece of Editing in Cooperstown New York Times - United States
But over his 10 seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was more than numbers. Much more. Both to baseball and to America. ...

Robinson's HOF plaque rededicated MLB.com - USA
Robinson, the first African-American to play in the big leagues when he opened the 1947 season at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, was inducted into the ...

Leaders & Success Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
Alston (1911-1984) managed the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1954 to 1957 and, after they moved, the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1958 to 1976. ...

Walter O'Malley Was Influential in Bringing Dodgers to LA 89.3 KPCC - CA,USA
The New York Irishman, who's still loathed in Brooklyn, out-maneuvered politicians on both coasts to find a bigger audience for his "Boys in Blue. ...

High Court Won’t Hear Appeal on Atlantic Yards New York Times - United States
Brooklyn has not had a professional major league sports team since the Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1957. Lawyers for the mayor and other governmental ...

LAistory: Baseball's First Wrigley Field Was in LA LAist - Los Angeles,CA,USA
O'Malley had his eyes on Los Angeles to be the new home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and this deal gave him the "territorial rights" needed (Ballparks.com). ...

Not Ebbets Field, but Close Enough New York Times - United States
A Cyclones fan since 2001, Mr. Garrett was one of dozens of fans who said KeySpan Park helped them imagine the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field, ...

Robinson was 'on the ball' as a civil rights advocate Tri State Defender - Memphis,TN,USA
After playing in the old Negro Leagues, Robinson was signed by Branch Rickey for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He took to the field for the first time on April 15, ...

On This Day in History: June 18 Babe Ruth’s Last Hurrah Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 06-18-2008 BROOKLYN — Babe Ruth was signed as coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers on June 18, 1938. ...

Cincinnati's Vander Meer tossed baseball's only back-to-back no ... The Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield,MA,USA
Vandy's next no-hitter came on a grand stage - the first night game at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field before a crowd of 38478. Through eight innings, he walked ...

In ’55, B’klyn Sandlot Baseball Was Color-Blind, But Cooperstown ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Andrew Paul Mele is a member of the “Old Boys of Summer,” a team of seniors that plays on the Parade Ground, and the author of “The Brooklyn Dodger ...

Children’s Books New York Times - United States
None would return until Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers some 60 years later. 88 pp. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion. $18.99. ...

Scully, Wooden help kids with cancer MLB.com - USA
The two also talked about the first time they met 50 years ago when Scully had just arrived with the Dodgers from Brooklyn and had moved into an apartment ...

Brooklyn and Manhattan teams established the game of baseball at: PBS - USA
The Brooklyn Dodgers won their only championship in which year? Which player has the highest all-time career batting average? Who is the only pitcher to win ...

LA's Baseball Team Almost Became the 'Senators' 89.3 KPCC - CA,USA
Fifty years ago, LA's most famous sports transplants, the Dodgers, unpacked their bats and gloves to settle in the Southland from Brooklyn. ...

Action: Reading Into It: interview with author of ‘Playing With ... The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA
Drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1941, he was on track to have a long career as a major leaguer, that is, until WWII broke out and Gene was drafted into ...

Howe’s Brooklyn Author to Release Captivating Oral History of Brooklyn Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 06-09-2008 By Sam Howe and Friends How does one begin to capture the voice of a borough? ...

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Brooklyn Dodgers News Alerts

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Giant on the mound The Courier News - Elgin,IL,USA
The family rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and in the early 1950s, Maglie played for the New York Giants, "their arch enemy. He seemed a frightening, ...

FROM THE BROOKLYN AERIE Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... was these same Dodgers at Ebbets Field who were the first team in both leagues to play a night game. Did you know that the name of Brooklyn company that ...

Pro-Atlantic Yards Rally Attracts Huge Crowd Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
When he asked his uncle why the area had declined, his uncle told him that when the city turned down Walter O’Malley’s request to build a new Ebbets Field ...

Erskine finishes this start Indianapolis Star - United States
"That makes me nervous," said the Anderson, Ind., native and 12-year major leaguer who won a World Series ring with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955. ...

GIANT OF THE GAME Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
He'd already helped the Brooklyn Dodgers to their only World Series championship, but that mattered little now. Max Macon ran this team, and he had other, ...

Terrapins' Robinson Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA
Jackie Robinson's appearance at Ebbets Field with the Brooklyn Dodgers changed that playing field. So did Darryl Hill's appearance at Byrd Stadium. ...

Friday, May 30, 2008

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

On this Day: Dodgers and Giants Get Permission to Move to California findingDulcinea - New York,New York,USA
by findingDulcinea Staff On May 28, 1957, the National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles ...

Baseball exec turned Dodgers into champions Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
NEW YORK -- Buzzie Bavasi, who spent four decades as an executive for three Major League Baseball franchises and built the Brooklyn Dodgers' first ...

On This Day in History: May 22 FROM THE BROOKLYN AERIE Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
In buying up the land that eventually became Ebbets Field, baseball impresario Charles Ebbets purchased the parcels of land through a dummy corporation so ...

More Glory: Talking Baseball, From the ’50s and ’60s New York Times - United States
Mr. Vincent interviews the pitcher who, in 1951, served up the most famous gopher ball in baseball history, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Ralph Branca. ...

How Zimmer lost his job to Wills ESPN - USA
From 1954 to 1957, I was a utility infielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers … [I]n 1958, when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, I finally became the regular ...

The sweet staying power of Junior's New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
After a Dodgers game, people would travel to Junior's on the Flatbush Ave. trolley. Later, it became a hangout for Brooklyn politicians. ...

Jackie Robinson’s daughter chronicles the challenges he overcame. Kansas City Star - MO,USA
The verbal abuse heaped on him from some of his own teammates, until the Brooklyn Dodgers’ management put a stop to it. Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s ...

Baseball in New York The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com - Syracuse,NY,USA
He is most animated when he speaks about playing at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn when Dodger fans made up a strange, hostile tribe. ...

7:36 pm: A+ Series: Achievements follow Erskine's baseball career Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
Following a stint in the Navy he was signed into the Brooklyn Dodgers’ organization. He pitched his first Major League game in 1948. ...

Baseball Legends, and a Beloved Song New York Times - United States
Rickey was the visionary president of the Brooklyn Dodgers who recruited Jackie Robinson, making him, in 1947, the major leagues’ first black player. ...

Bossert sold? BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
By Gersh Kuntzman The Hotel Bossert, the swanky Montague Street accommodation that was the site of the Dodgers’ knock-down, drag-out World Series victory ...

Borts Field Dedication WYTV - Youngstown,OH,USA
He played eight years in the majors for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Shuba was asked to throw out a ceremonial first pitch tonight, but at age 83, he had a younger ...

Colourful Bavasi harboured soft spot for Montreal The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
Buzzie was president and general manager of the California Angels, while his son, Peter, was GM of the Blue Jays. mutual love for the Brooklyn Dodgers - he

Historic Jackie Robinson Court Martial Papers in Auction News-antique.com (press release) - Garden City,NY,USA
The documents, one of which contains the hand-written initials of the former Brooklyn Dodgers' infielder, reveal that Robinson was pioneering civil rights ...

Bavasi leaves long legacy of respect MLB.com - USA
... pitcher Carl Erskine, who was seeking information so that he could send a floral arrangement on behalf of the 1955 world champion Brooklyn Dodgers. ...

Bavasi rooted in Nashua Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
Bavasi was cautiously optimistic, getting daily reports from representatives at the Brooklyn Dodgers' spring training home in Thomasville, NC, ...

Dodgers announcer Scully remains a treasure Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Thus it was jarring to hear him suggest rather bluntly Tuesday that his 59th consecutive season calling Dodgers games might be his last. ...

Buzzie Bavasi; Dodgers GM Aided Baseball Integration Washington Post - United States
Buzzie Bavasi, left, with Brooklyn Dodgers star players Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella at the Hotel Lexington in New York. ...

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

Jackie Robinson's legacy set in stone at Mets' Citi Field The Associated Press
- He dreamed of the rotunda as an homage — a much larger one — to the rotunda at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, where he attended games as a child. ...

Baseball stadiums once played host to major boxing events - Boxing ESPN - USA
In 1960, when a 52-year-old wrecking ball specialist named Mike Catusco demolished Ebbets Field, he was not only ruined the dilapidated home of the Brooklyn ...

Film to chronicle life of Brooklyn Dodger Gene Moore Paste Magazine - Decatur,GA,USA
Playing With The Enemy tells the extraordinary story of Gene Moore, a talented young catcher who was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940 when he was only ...

A city hangs on his every word Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
When Scully was hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950, his contemporaries included Mel Allen with the Yankees and Russ Hodges with the Giants. ...

A trek grows in Brooklyn: Visiting old Dodger haunts Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Ebbets Field Apartments, 1720 Bedford Ave. From 1913 until demolition in 1960, this gritty block held Ebbets Field, the snug and storied home of the Dodgers ...

You Can’t Just Blow Up History New York Times - United States
The demolitions will not resemble those of Ebbets Field or the Polo Grounds in two significant ways. There will be no wrecking balls, which are generally ...

Orphans of the Ravine Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Instead, the city awarded the 315 acres to the Dodgers as part of the effort to lure the team from Brooklyn. And some have never forgotten -- or forgiven ...

Nashville now and then: Bring on the Babe Nashville Post - Nashville,TN,USA...
on the afternoon of April 1, 1926, as the New York Yankees met the Brooklyn Robins (commonly known as the Dodgers) for a Nashville exhibition game. ...

On His Terms Pasadena Weekly - Pasadena,CA,USA
The Brooklyn Dodgers drafted him in 1948, and after a few years in the minors he made it in 1951 to the big league club, where he became a teammate of ...

Stadium issues drove Dodgers westbound Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
news PowerRating PR Charts -- Walter O'Malley owned one of baseball's most successful franchises in the early 1950s because his Brooklyn Dodgers always ...

Rube Walker Should Be in the Baseball Hall of Fame Bleacher Report - Menlo Park,CA,USA
He was traded shortly before the 1951 season to the Brooklyn Dodgers and served as a backup catcher to future Hall of Famer Roy Campanella. ...

Mattingly: McGlothin was an artful Dodger of 1949-50 GoVolsXtra - Knoxville,TN,USA
By Tom Mattingly (Contact) Knoxvillian Pat McGlothin, who pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949-50, is pictured at Bill Meyer Stadium as manager of the ...

Emmett Kelly--Dodger Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
He had performed on Broadway and in movies and had taken off the 1956 season to serve as the Dodgers’ mascot in Brooklyn. (You can still find Dodger ...

Rich Memories in the Last Days at Dodgertown New York Times - United States
That was more than the crowd that saw the Brooklyn Dodgers play their last game at Ebbets Field in 1957, before Walter O’Malley moved the team to Los ...

Dodgertown finale full of nostalgia, emotion - MLB ESPN - USA
The Los Angeles Dodgers took 7327 friends and well-wishers for a spin down Memory Lane on Monday -- with the obligatory pauses to take in the scenery at Roy ...

A farewell to Dodgertown New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
Vero Beach and Vin Scully, that's what's left of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Okay, Tommy LaSorda, too, but LaSorda, bless his heart, has over the years become the ...

Dodgertown's integrated field of dreams Boston Globe - United States
But once the Brooklyn Dodgers began signing Negro League stars such as Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, Junior Jim Gilliam, and Roy Campanella, baseball was ...

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

Mets Unveil Plans For Jackie Robinson Rotunda Queens Chronicle - Rego Park,NY,USA
The rotunda, which will be the major entrance for the new stadium, is designed to resemble the old Ebbets Field where Robinson played. ...

Robinson's wife a guiding light MLB.com - USA
... who both fled to the west coast after the 1957 season leaving their ballparks -- the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field -- to the whims of the wrecking ball. ...

Leaders & Success Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USABY MICHAEL MINK
His natural sense of urgency to win was heightened when he was a 19-year-old rookie with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In his Hall of Fame induction ...

Tour takes you into the Bossert! Brooklyn Papers - Brooklyn,NY,USA
The fabled Montague Street hotel, where the Brooklyn Dodgers famously celebrated their lone World Series win in 1955, has been off limits for years and is ...

Dodgers: 50 years in the West OCRegister - Santa Ana,CA,USA
The Dodgers drew 1.85 million fans that first season, more than 800000 better than the club attracted the year before in Brooklyn. ...

Main Gate to Citi Field a Tribute to Robinson New York Times - United States
The rotunda, with its brick archways, is an homage to the signature architectural feature of Ebbets Field, where Robinson broke major league baseball’s ...

Mets Unveil Plans For New Stadium's Jackie Robinson Rotunda NY1 - NY,USA
Robinson broke major league baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers 61 years ago Tuesday, and a tribute to him will literally be the center piece ...

Robinson's legacy set in stone at Citi Field Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers for the first time on April 15, 1947. His number was retired for all major ...

Giants' Stoneham was an unsung Western pioneer USA Today - USA
... Francisco Giants, played as important a role in the geographical expansion of Major League Baseball as his Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers counterpart. ...

FoxSports.com Photo Gallery FOXSports.com - USA
An April 18, 1948 portrait of Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player Jackie Robinson. Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day Tuesday April 15, 2008, ...

Nation should honor Robinson MLB.com - USA
... to celebrate the integration of the game, just as this year, the 61st anniversary of Robinson's arrival with the Brooklyn Dodgers will be celebrated. ...

Six decades later, Robinson's breakthrough still powerful USA Today - USA
By Paul Williams, USA TODAY When Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier April 15, 1947, the impact spread further than Ebbets Field. ...

HISTORIC SPORTS TEAM BlackAthlete.net - USA
As for Branch Rickey he would be better known today than Robinson but not by much as the architect of the St. Louis Cardinals then the Brooklyn Dodgers. ...

Robinson lives on in his letters MLB.com - USA
A few years after Robinson made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Rabinovitz's father, David, a lawyer and a believer in civil rights who lived in ...

Yes, there are still some New York Giants fans Baseball Toaster - Alameda,CA,USA
The New York Giants, who were a far more successful franchise than the Brooklyn Dodgers, have lost the nostalgia war. There is a cottage industry in weepy ...

Say Hey, Giants Fans Are Wistful, Too New York Times - United States
Consider this outrage: The Mets used Ebbets Field, particularly its rotunda (named for Robinson), as an architectural model for their new Citi Field. ...

One Dodger legend recalls another New Jersey Jewish News - Whippany,NJ,USA
Koufax made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955. Because of the large bonus he received, he had to be kept on the major league roster. ...

Robinson's legacy a major part of Citi MLB.com - USA
Entering the rotunda, fans will be greeted by the statue of Robinson in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, along with a carefully chosen inscription running along ...

'Shea' It Ain't So: Final Season for Stadium Named After NY Lawyer Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Shea is widely credited with figuring out a way to bring National League baseball back to New York after its two teams -- the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York ...

Shea to Be Honored for Bringing Mets to City New York Times - United States
... for his part in the political gamesmanship that led to bringing the Mets to the city after the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants left in 1957. ...

Who Was JJ Byrne? By louise crawford Byrne, a Brooklyn borough president elected in 1926 who died in office four years later. Instead, the park would be named Washington Park, as it was in the 1880s, when it was home to the baseball team that would become the Dodgers. ...

Rickey's work honored in new book Kansas City Royals - USA
Rickey moved to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1942, and later used the nearing of the end of World War II as a starting point for his move to integrate baseball. ...

Brooklyn's side of the O'Malley saga Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Peter's father, Walter O'Malley, is mostly famous for moving the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, although the Brooklyn Dodgers were the most profitable ...

Scully to receive multiple honors in April Los Angeles Dodgers - Los Angeles,CA,USA...
announcer Red Barber and Connie Desmond as part of the Brooklyn Dodgers' broadcast team in 1950, just a year after graduating from Fordham University. ...

On This Day in History: April 3 Overdue for Baseball Hall of Fame Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
He returned to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 as a catcher, but on the insistence of Roy Campanella, he was moved to first base. Manager Leo Durocher said: ...

Could be a season of endings for Erskine Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
“It’s like (the old) Anderson High School or Ebbets Field (former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers),” Erskine said of Vero Beach and Dodgertown, the name of the ...

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

Twenty Years Baseball Toaster - Alameda,CA,USA
by Jon Weisman Twenty-one years is the drought the Brooklyn Dodgers endured between their last National League pennant under Wilbert Robinson in 1920 and ...

Goodbye to Dodgertown: DeWitt shines against Marlins Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
"I grew up 15 blocks from Ebbets Field. All the players back then lived within 10 blocks of the park. You could walk into a barber shop and see them in ...

Erskine remembers winning LA Dodgers' first game Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
... a game for the Los Angles Dodgers, Anderson’s own Carl Erskine has plenty of connection to this year’s 50-year celebration of the move from Brooklyn. ...

Great memories mark Dodgertown's final days MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
... there still was segregation in Holman Stadium, which was built in 1953 to replace the original field the Dodgers played on, dubbed Ebbets Field 2. ...

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

Saying goodbye to Dodgertown after 60 years National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Warren's grandfather raised him a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, and now he is a 58-year-old regular here. This being the Dodgers' 60th spring in Vero Beach, ...

On This Day in History: March 4 Casey Not at the Bat Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 03-04-2008 BROOKLYN รข€” As manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1935, The Daily Eagle Sports page ...

What Johnny Podres did for Brooklyn Advertiser-News - USA
Johnny Podres was a major league pitcher who brought to fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers the single happiest day of their baseball lives. ...

Borough loses final link to its Bums Guardian - UK
Nearby is another symbol of old New York, Ebbets Field - once the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, now a housing project. I headed to Tom's a few weeks back, ...

Savoring Dodgertown Washington Post - United States
There are meeting rooms in the Brooklyn wing of the building where many of the Dodger offices are housed and others in the Los Angeles wing. ...

Book: 'The Rise and Fall of Dodgertown' Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
There's no better example of this than the Dodgers, who are poised to "pull a Brooklyn" and, after 60 years, vacate Vero. Next spring, the club plans to ...

'Lucky charm' Craig's career had legs Los Angeles Dodgers - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By Mark Langill / Los Angeles Dodgers Tommy Lasorda jokes that of all the members of the 1955 world champion Brooklyn Dodgers, he was the second-to-last ...

Cuba, we've really missed you New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
In 1947, three years before we arrived in Havana, the big news there was that the Brooklyn Dodgers and their minor-league club, the Montreal Royals, ...

Dodgertown: Leaving a legacy behind Palm Beach Post - FL, United States
By JOE CAPOZZI More than 50 years after leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles, the Dodgers are leaving Dodgertown, their spring home for 61 seasons,

A daughter remembers the Dodgers’ of f icial photographer Marconews (subscription) - Marco Island,FL,USA
Finally, a series of haunting shots chronicle the historic demolition of his beloved Ebbets Field, a heart-wrenching experience that he covered in his ...

Dodgertown was Jackie's refuge Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
When Robinson walked in to meet his Montreal Royals teammates at lunch, according to Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers author Peter Golenbock, ...

History: Don Zimmer DRays Bay - Clearwater,FL,USA
Born in 1931 Zimmer began his pro career in 1954 as a middle infielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers, hitting .182/.270/.242 in 24 games. ...

The Dodgers prepare for the final season at their Florida spring ... Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
"But they're not the Brooklyn Dodgers anymore. They're the Los Angeles Dodgers." TICKETS: The Dodgers will play just 11 games in Vero Beach this year, ...

The Dodgers of 1958: Don Newcombe Los Angeles Dodgers - Los Angeles,CA,USA
At age 81, Newcombe is one of the last witnesses to the revolutionary period after World War II, when Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey signed Jackie ...

Words of wisdom: Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax works with Dodgers ... TCPalm - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
Jason Ganzer, 25, of Coral Springs was one of the fans fortunate to get an autograph — on an 8x10 photo of Koufax in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. ...