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Another chance for Gil Hodges Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
"It's beyond us why he hasn't been elected," says Marty Adler of Plainview, NY, founder and president of the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame and distributor ...

Vets may give Hodges his Hall due Los Angeles Dodgers - Los Angeles,CA,USA
That candidacy somehow mirrored his run with the Dodgers; Brooklyn kept getting into World Series, and kept losing them to the Bronx, to the Yankees. ...

Dahlen to be considered for spot in Hall Cubs.com - USA
Defensively, he racked up 7500 assists at shortstop playing for the Chicago Colts/Orphans (1891-98), Brooklyn Superbas/Dodgers (1899-1903, 1910-11), ...

Former JJ Byrne Park Rededicated As ‘Washington Park’ in Slope Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... known alternately as the Atlantics, the Brooklyn Grays, the Bridegrooms, and ultimately, the [Trolley] Dodgers, after they were bought by Charles Ebbets ...

JJ Byrned! Washington gets his park — old beep gets stripped BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
... since the greenspace was originally the home of a baseball field called Washington Park, where a precursor of the beloved Brooklyn Dodgers once played. ...

No Offense Intended, JJ Byrne New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
(Photo: Ruby Washington/The New York Times) JJ Byrne Park, a popular three-acre spot of open space in Park Slope, Brooklyn, was formally renamed on ...

On This Day in History: December 1 A Managerial Birthday Gift Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 12-01-2008 BROOKLYN — Speculation was running wild as to who would be the new Brooklyn Dodgers ...

You Can Come and Go. They’re Staying Awhile. New York Times - United States
And that was before so many famous people were buried there, among them FAO Schwarz of toy fame, Samuel Morse of code fame, Charles Ebbets of Dodgers fame...

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FROM THE BROOKLYN AERIE Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Jackie Robinson’s first year in baseball in 1947 broke all National League attendance records—1807526 fans at Ebbets Field, 1863542 spectators on the road. ...

From country boy to Boy of Summer The News - Salem,AR,USA
Both would find their fame, however, with other ballclubs -- Preacher with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Kell with the Detroit Tigers.

Preacher didn't have to pitch to win The News - Salem,AR,USA
And of all things, the game was against the Brooklyn Dodgers, the team Roe was destined to join a couple of years later and achieve superstar status with. ...

What legends are made of ... The News - Salem,AR,USA
Branch Rickey signed Roe in 1948 to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1951, Roe racked up a 22-3 record and was named The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year. ...

On This Day in History: November 18 A Dodgers ‘Player’ Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Although she was born in St. Louis in 1912, she became the musical soul of the Brooklyn Dodgers. At one of her first performances she impetuously played ...

Southpaws set 'em down Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Preacher Roe, who bamboozled batters with an illegal spitball and other crafty pitches for the Brooklyn Dodgers, died at 92 from colon cancer in West Plains ...

On This Day in History: November 12 Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
“With twice their number of relatives and friends, they had stood up in Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, and in a mass Veterans Day ceremony, first of its kind, ...

Naples photo exhibit takes you out to ballgame The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA
... 2008 Bonnie Crosby heard the crack of the bat and saw the dust clouds of clay along with these Brooklyn Dodgers on Ebbets Field in the 1940s and '50s. ...

'Dodgertown' doesn't sit well in Chavez Ravine Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
And according to AP, not everyone likes it: Next spring, when a city’s fancy turns to baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers will take the field in a ...

Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Preacher Roe dies Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
He pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates before joining Brooklyn in 1948, Roe had a 127-84 record in 12 major league seasons. ...

washingtonpost.com Washington Post - United States
By Matt Schudel Preacher Roe, 92, a pitcher with the "Boys of Summer" Brooklyn Dodgers teams of the late 1940s and early 1950s who helped lead his team to ...

Preacher Roe, Brooklyn Dodger ace, dies at 93 New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
BY BILL MADDEN Preacher Roe kicks his feet up and enjoys a quiet moment in the Brooklyn Dodgers' clubhouse. AP Preacher Roe makes lots of noise with ...

Then There Was Eight...Roe Dead at 92 Rays Digest - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
By Tot Holmes Elwin "Preacher Roe", one of the last living members of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Series team, died in West Plains, Missouri, ...

Bill Reynolds: Tracking down Rhode Islanders to make the cover of ... Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA
The Brooklyn Dodgers’ Clem Labine, pitching during spring training in 1957, was the first Rhode Islander to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated. ...

Fantasy farewell Sebastian Sun - Sebastian,FL,USA
Los Angeles Dodgers fans and former players from the Brooklyn days and beyond made their last treks to Vero Beach for the final Dodgers Adult Fantasy Camp ...

On This Day in History: October 31 A Farewell Clang, Clang, Clang Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
When the electric streetcars came in the late 1800s, it was Brooklyn that embraced the clang-clangers with great enthusiasm. There were so many electric ...

Willard Mullin Draws "The Brooklyn Bum" By Leif Peng(Leif Peng) Twenty years earlier, during the 1937 baseball season, Willard Mullin was leaving a Brooklyn Dodgers double-header. He had just watched the team split a double header. By winning the first game they had climbed into the upper half ...

The Duke Of Flatbush: The Story Of Duke Snider Bleacher Report - San Francisco,CA,USA
Duke Snider is one of the best Dodgers ever to play the game. He played for the Brooklyn/LA Dodgers from 1947 to 1962. He played left field and is one of ...

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Sports of The Times An Ebbets Field Confession From That ‘Brennan’ Kid New York Times - United States
But in a letter to me not long ago, he pleaded guilty to his life of crime as a turnstile boy at Ebbets Field in 1944, when a seventh-place Dodgers team ...

Revenge is a dish best served 92 years old Baseball Toaster - Alameda,CA,USA
This would be the 1916 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Brooklyn Dodgers. This was a World Series that is often overlooked. ...

Zimmer the ultimate common denominator Boston Globe - United States
He was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 and he was there when Jackie Robinson stole home in the 1955 World Series. He was a member of Casey

Shuba recalls glory days Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown,OH,USA
... actively campaigned for former Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley to be considered for inclusion into the Baseball Hall of Fame. ...

On This Day in History: October 3 Ebbets Field Mobbed Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
For yet another season Brooklyn Dodger fans were disappointed when the St. Louis Cardinals wound up with the pennant that year.

Memorable October homers don't have to be in World Series USA Today - USA
But in Game 3 at the Polo Grounds, the Brooklyn Dodgers lead 4-1 in the bottom of the ninth inning. Alvin Dark and Don Mueller single before Whitey ...

Thinking of Sports Voices - Woodbury,CT,USA
If you know the story at all, you know that Branch Rickey, who ran the Brooklyn Dodgers in the late 1940s, was a man ahead of his time. ...

Hall of Fame voices chronicle NLCS USA Today - USA
Scully, who started with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950, is calling the games for Los Angeles Dodgers radio; Jaime Jarrin for that club's Spanish-language ...

On This Day in History: October 1 Baseball Fans Storm Ebbets Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 10-01-2008 BROOKLYN — On October 1, 1951, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the NY Giants battled it out ...

On This Day in History: October 1 The Dodgers’ Duke Saves the Day Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... bat set the crowd off into gurgling, shrieking, yakking, unrestrained creatures. Such were the days of the Brooklyn Dodgers and their idolizing fans.

Dorfman: Before the Mets, it was the Dodgers NJ.com - New Jersey,USA
by Sid Dorfman/The Star-Ledger After all, aren't the Mets the lineal descendants of the Brooklyn Dodgers? And if so, wouldn't there be a genetic explanation ...

On This Day in History: September 29 Our Heroes in Victory Parade Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
To the people of the Borough of Brooklyn. WHEREAS, The Brooklyn Dodgers, under the leadership of Leo Durocher, have brought to our Borough its first ...

SHEA GOODBYE THE STADIUM: A grand stage excitement Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
But O'Malley, denied the plot he desired in downtown Brooklyn, wanted no part of the site Moses was pushing and shifted his operation to the West Coast, ...

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On This Day in History: September 26 Victory Is Ours!! Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 09-26-2008 BROOKLYN — The 1941 champions of the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers roared ...


On This Day in History: September 25 Eagle Readers Vote On ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
“Dixie Walker, hard-hitting right fielder, is the most popular player on the Dodgers, according to results of the fan poll, conducted by the Brooklyn ...

Bobby Bragan knows baseball Southlake Times - Plano,TX,USA
In 1943, he was traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers. While with the Dodgers, he was able to play in the 1947 World Series. “I had a two-base hit in the 1947 ...

On This Day in History: September 24 Did He or Didn’t He? Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... published online 09-24-2008 BROOKLYN — Baseball’s National League was in the heat of the 1924 pennant race at Ebbets Field on September 24. ...

On This Day in History: September 24 Dodgers Bid a Sad Adieu To ... Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
What’s Brooklyn without the Dodgers?” Today the Jackie Robinson Apartments occupy the land where Dem Bums used to play. It was on April 9, 1913 that the ...

At Ebbets Field, It Was Really Over When It Was Over New York Times - United States
I was with The New York Journal-American then and had covered the Dodgers for The Brooklyn Eagle, but I didn’t plan to be the last writer out. ...

Los Angeles TimesDodgers-Giants rivalry crosses country, generationsLos Angeles Times - CA,USA
Again and again, the man in the heavy coat, worn in the heat of summer as well as the cool of early fall, would blister the Dodgers' outfielder with his ...

The Strange History of Final Games in Stadiums Slated for Demolition Village Voice - New York,NY,USA
... turned out to bear witness: Only 6702 showed up at Ebbets Field on September 24, 1957, to hear organist Gladys Gooding play "California, Here I Come. ...

Gil's time is now . . . Again Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
Her late husband, Brooklyn Dodgers legend Gil Hodges, is up for the Hall of Fame. Again. The Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday issued the roster of 10 ...

Explaining Ebbets days becoming more difficult Kingston Daily Freeman - Kingston,NY,USA
WITH EVERY passing year it becomes more and more difficult to explain what it was like to follow the Dodgers when they played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. ...

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Old parks fading into history Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
It's hard to imagine how baseball history would have different had New York been on the ball and done what it needed to do to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn. ...

On Brooklyn’s Boardwalk, the Fun Stops Forward - New York,NY,USA
Brooklyn’s favorite pastime since the Dodgers moved out west. But Joe Sitt, head of Thor and a local boy made good (he’s from Gravesend, the neighborhood ...

City attorney expects court battle to delay Dodger Stadium ... Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
"I think we'll beat our all-time Ebbets Field record of 1800000 in a season in which we had to operate under difficulties to say the least--going without ...

Scully will return for 60th season Los Angeles Dodgers - Los Angeles,CA,USA
He joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond on the Brooklyn Dodgers broadcast team in 1950, one year after graduating from Fordham University. ...

Snider drew from voice of experience Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
MONTREAL - Before and after his Hall of Fame playing career with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, Duke Snider was very much involved with professional ...

Slay charge for handyman New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
Other Ebbets Field tenants said Cuyler would hang around the complex after work to drink and do drugs. But despite five prior drug and weapons arrests ...

Historic Photos of Brooklyn by John B. Manbeck The Open Press (press release) - USA
From the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 and the launching of the USS Maine, to the Brooklyn Dodgers and Coney Island, and much more, Brooklyn shines ...

Some broken hearts can never be healed Staten Island Advance - SILive.com - Staten Island,NY,USA
Late in the 1957 regular season, the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers announced that they would be leaving the city and heading west to California. ...

Plenty of hate in the major leagues Kingston Daily Freeman - Kingston,NY,USA
If you want to know what real loathing was all about on the diamond, you have to go back a bit more than a half century when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn ...

Former Brooklyn Dodger Mike Sandlock still strong on the golf ... Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT,USA
My legs give up," said Sandlock, a member of the Brooklyn Dodger Hall of Fame. "I can play scramble for 18 holes because I don't have to hit every shot. ...

Leaders & SuccessI nvestor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
Ol' Casey was 59 by then, plus had a losing record managing the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves. In 1944, Stengel managed the minor league Milwaukee ...

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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 ...

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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 ...