The ghosts of “Dem Bums” still linger in Brooklyn. It’s been decades since the Brooklyn Dodgers left the subways and New York ...
The team of their youth, or the team that represents the city they call home? It's a choice facing a select few this October.
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 ...
English immigrants brought rounders to America, the game gradually morphing to baseball as we know it starting in the early 1800s.
But long before the Yankees were formed in 1903, there was another New York City team: The Dodgers were Brooklyn’s darlings ...
Ron Schweiger remembers seeing the Dodgers play at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, where the green grass was an astonishing sight for a boy raised on black-and-white TV.
In the beginning, the World Series matchup of the Dodgers against the Yankees was a kind of charming intra-city showdown of ...
Ron Schweiger remembers seeing the Dodgers play at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, where the green grass was an astonishing sight ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...