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 ...
I don’t think anyone would argue that Freddy Freeman was the overwhelming star of Major League Baseball’s 2024 World Series.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The previous time came in the 1956 World Series when the Yankees blew a five-run lead against the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 2. Cole’s need for six outs to escape the fifth inning led to the ...
While this year's competition has been a battle of the coasts, both franchises called New York home before 1958, with the Yankees based in the Bronx and the Dodgers based in Brooklyn. With Hall of ...
500. Pee Wee Reese hit .304 with four RBIs for the Dodgers. New York and Brooklyn traded 1-0 wins to begin the Series. The teams entered the ninth inning of Game 3 tied, 1-1. But in the top of the ...
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (KABC) -- The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn back in 1958. That was a heartbreaking time for Ron Schweiger, a Brooklyn borough historian who has fond childhood ...
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 ...