The ghosts of “Dem Bums” still linger in Brooklyn. It’s been decades since the Brooklyn Dodgers left the subways and New York City for the highways and Chavez Ravine in California — but ...
But long before the Yankees were formed in 1903, there was another New York City team: The Dodgers were Brooklyn’s darlings until 1958, when they moved to Los Angeles. My 91-year-old grandfather ...
Before moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers resided in Brooklyn under a series of different names from 1883 to 1957. The franchise was known as the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers in 1911 and 1912 ...
But long before the Yankees were formed in 1903, there was another New York City team: The Dodgers were Brooklyn’s darlings until 1958, when they moved to Los Angeles. My 91-year-old grandfather ...
Moses, concerned about traffic congestion in downtown Brooklyn, recommended the Dodgers move to Queens, near where Shea Stadium was eventually built. O’Malley could not fathom that the Brooklyn ...
To the editor: It was considered outre to be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan on Long Island, where I lived and where most people followed the Yankees or the Giants. I was 13 years old in 1955 when the ...
and he firmly believes his childhood passion for the Brooklyn Dodgers set him on a course to becoming a civil rights attorney. Now it’s the Los Angeles Dodgers who’ll be playing the New York ...
By now, Mr. Askotzky knows what they are looking for: a small plaque that marks the location of home plate at Ebbets Field, the long-ago-dismantled home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Mr. Askotzky ...
For Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger, the Dodgers are, and always will be, Brooklyn's team. "The fans had to dodge the trolley cars crossing the streets to get to the ballpark. So ...
The Yankees and Dodgers’s October showdowns have produced some of baseball’s most memorable moments. New York Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio (5) slides home safely in the ninth inning to ...
Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson safely steals home plate under the tag of New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra as pinch-hitter Frank Kellert looks on in the eighth inning of the World Series ...
In the beginning, the World Series matchup of the Dodgers against the Yankees was a kind of charming intra-city showdown of two New York City boroughs, blue collar Brooklyn, equipped with a ...