The ghosts of “Dem Bums” still linger in Brooklyn. It’s been decades since the Brooklyn Dodgers left the subways and New York ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
My grandfather was a loyal Brooklyn Dodgers fan. So was my grandmother on the other side, who grew up a block from Ebbets Field. They came from an era when the Dodgers and Yankees didn’t just ...
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.
The day had gone perfectly, as far as the citizens of Brooklyn were concerned. It was the fifth of October but felt like the Fourth of July, partly because of the unseasonably muggy 85-degree day ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...