Wouldn’t it be swell, he told himself, if there happened to be a Brooklyn Dodgers jersey with Pee Wee Reese’s No. 1 on the back? What he found was a Brooklyn Dodgers jersey with Duke Snider ...
It would be easy to miss the plaque in a parking lot that was once Ebbets Field, but the managers of a nearby apartment complex are happy to help.
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 ...
In Jersey City there was a stadium called Roosevelt ... And O’Malley said, ‘The Brooklyn Dodgers are not going to play in Queens. They’re not going to be the Queens Dodgers,’” said ...
Valenzuela’s impact endured for so long and so powerfully that the Dodgers retired his jersey number in 2023 ... minor league farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1960 — Jim Martin of Detroit ...
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 ...
That history began when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, their home for the first seven of those World Series battles before the franchise moved to L.A. in 1958. The Yankees won six of those ...
FILE - Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Johnny Podres is lifted ... Both teams feel the history created by their predecessors. "You put that jersey on and those pinstripes, it just feels different ...
The debate this week in the Adler household is about who the late family patriarch, Marty Adler, would root for in the 2024 World Series. The Yankees — or, the Los Angeles Dodgers? "I can’t ...
The historic rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers dates back to 1941 when Joe DiMaggio’s Yankees clinched a decisive victory over the Dodgers in the World Series.
It was 1883, and Byrne was forming a baseball team – one which would eventually go on to be known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. Baseball teams had been competing out of Brooklyn as early as 1849 ...