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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 — 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. ...

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Team Takes Leave of Another Town New York Times - United States
Shortly after World War II, his father, a wealthy Vero Beach businessman named Bud Holman, somehow persuaded the Brooklyn Dodgers to spend their spring ...

Theater, panel honor Robinson's heroism The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
Vaughn and I were only 5 to 8 years old at the time, but whoever got the first word out would always want to be Brooklyn Dodgers star player Jackie Robinson ...

Columbus celebrating Barber's 100th birthday Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - Tupelo,MS,USA
Barber was an announcer for the Cincinnati Reds (1934-1938), the Brooklyn Dodgers (1939-1953) and the New York Yankees (1954-1966). ...

My fantastic sign: Put these fans in Hall of Fame Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The same can be said about Hilda Chester with the Brooklyn Dodgers, The Chief for the Rangers, Fireman Ed for the Jets. Spike Lee worked his way up, ...

Dodgers World Series star Johnny Podres laid to rest SportingNews.com - USA
PORT HENRY, NY (AP) -- Johnny Podres, who pitched the Brooklyn Dodgers to their only World Series championship in 1955, was remembered Thursday as a ...

Vaughan: City to roll out red carpet for ‘Old Red' The Commercial Dispatch - Columbus,MS,USA
... first 10 years of his life as a Columbian before moving on to eventually become the revered radio voice of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees. ...

Barber's 100th will be special Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
He later became the first baseball radio play-by-play broadcaster in New York, working first for the old Brooklyn Dodgers. It was another of so many firsts ...

In the Catbird Seat One More Time Washington Post - United States
... including memorable stints with the old Brooklyn Dodgers from 1939-1953 and his last gig, sharing the NY Yankees booth with another southern gentleman, ...

Dodgers' camp was not a happy place for black players like Don ... HollandSentinel.com - Holland,MI,USA
By Ross Newhan Special to the Los Angeles Times The "ramshackle condition" of the living quarters at the former Navy base that the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

McNulty: Critical column left out Dodgers' selfish actions Sebastian Sun (subscription) - Sebastian,FL,USA
... East Coast connection is all but gone, fading rapidly with the deaths of fans from the Brooklyn days. So no one here is saying the Dodgers shouldn't go. ...

It's the end of an era in Vero Beach Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA
... will never grow old for generations of baseball fans who saw or read about their exploits as the scrappy Brooklyn Dodgers of the early to middle 1950s. ...

Boys of Summer polish Dodgertown memories Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Ralph Branca will never grow old for generations of baseball fans who followed their exploits as the scrappy Brooklyn Dodgers of the early to mid-1950s. ...

Brooklyn Dodgers News Alerts

Dodgers set to say goodbye to Vero San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
He had Dodgertown employees stamp "Brooklyn Dodgers" on $25000 in cash, closed the dining room and sent the player into town for the weekend. ...

Dodgertown is closing not a spring too soon Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Those good old days are long gone, and it only makes sense that the Dodgers disappear with them. Like an aging Brooklyn snowbird exchanging blank stares ...

Dodgers headed way off-base Los Angeles Times - CA,USA...
another in the chain of broken links to Brooklyn. The Dodgers -- whose pitchers and catchers report to camp Thursday -- are slated to move to Glendale, ...

Karl Ehrhardt, 83, Sign Man and Shea Stadium Fixture, Is Dead New York Times - United States
Like Hilda Chester, the cowbell clanger who roamed the aisles of Ebbets Field in the heyday of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1950s, Mr. Ehrhardt became a ...

'Boys' bid Dodgertown farewell Houston Chronicle - United States
Ralph Branca's toughest day with the Brooklyn Dodgers was Oct. 3, 1951, when he served up Bobby Thomson's "Shot-Heard-Round-The-World," that put the rival ...

It's the bottom of the ninth for Fantasy Camp at Dodgertown TCPalm - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
VERO BEACH — Even when the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, they always had Dodgertown. For 60 years, the Dodgers have conducted their spring training ...

Russ Lemmon: The end nears for Dodgertown Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription) - Vero Beach,FL,USA
"I was not going to miss any (fantasy) camps with the Brooklyn Dodgers," said Nelson, who has fond childhood memories of attending games at Ebbets Field. ...

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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 ...