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The next day, the Ebbets Field crowd was ugly. Duke said, “I can win them back with one crack of the bat,” and he did. Duke once did an endorsement for Ovaltine chocolate drink on theCaptain MidnightTV show. The story was reported as “Snider Says He’s Glad To Be Leaving Brooklyn.” Not quite what he said. No other team has ever had the bond that Dem Bums had with Brooklyn, and a lot of it started right on that impossibly green diamond. Unlike modern baseball, where obscene amounts of money and free agency have utterly changed the tenor of the game, baseball as played by the Boys of Summer had a quality of purity.
O’Malley is described as a “visionary” who brought Major League Baseball to the Left Coast. This is true, but only if one considers that he brought “Major League Baseball, Inc.” the corporate entity to California. The Pacific Coast League, which had been lobbying to be the third big league, and which paid its players more than MLB, had been functioning there successfully for years. MLB owners, led by O’Malley, were resistant to PCL’s pay scales and limited form of free agency, and looked to break the PCL, which they did. It wasn’t vision that took the Giants and Dodgers out of New York. The atom bomb was a real-world reminder of all our anxieties.
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At the time of its opening, the Brooklyn Bridge was the largest suspension bridge in the world. It is instantly recognizable by its granite towers, with their distinctive twin Gothic arches. The only Brooklyn Dodgers team to ever win the World Series did so in 1955. The leading senior CUNY campus was selected to help address antisemitism globally, locally, and on campuses across the country.
When he died in Florida in 1997 he was buried in his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. Some of these people were world-beaters and some of them couldn’t get out of their own way. Many of them were ordinary men and women who found themselves in a place—Ebbets Field—at a time not very long ago at all, when all things seemed possible.
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Uncle Robbie started out as a Giant, then managed the Dodgers. Casey Stengel started out as a Dodger and ended up managing the Yankees. Leo The Lip, Dodger Manager one day, became Leo The Lip, Giant Manager the next.
I have spoken to LA fans who tell me that the Los Angeles franchise deeply honors its Brooklyn past. Yes, but they honor it inLos Angelesnot inBrooklyn. Ebbets Field was small, oddly configured, and the home of “Bums” and other misfits.
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But like a fighter who refuses to stay down, the Dodgers climbed to their feet every October and grappled with the Yankees. In the 44 World Series games played between Brooklyn and New York between 1941 and 1956, the Yankees scored only 28 more runs than the Dodgers; that is, for every 1 run that Brooklyn scored, New York scored 1.57. Half a run is hardly a mark of true dominance. The teams were opposites, right down to their respective ballparks.
It was a colorful world bequeathed to us in black and white, a world many of us remember, even if, like me, we were born even as it vanished. The ballpark has been featured in many books and films, both fiction and non-fiction. Winner of the first ever Rookie of the Year award and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Robinson’s placement in the daily lineup ended almost 80 years of racial segregation in baseball.
Brooklyn, with its diversity, its innate tolerance, and its flair for invention, was the natural team to draft Jackie Robinson. IDX information is provided exclusively for personal, non-commercial use, and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Copyright 2022 OneKey® MLS. All rights reserved. The listing broker’s offer of compensation is made only to participants of the MLS where the listing is filed. Certain real estate listing data is provided by Staten Island MLS under its Internet Data Exchange program.
Jackie Robinson made the league minimum of $5,000.00 for the season when he came to Brooklyn in 1947. Don Zimmer’s original salary was $140.00 per month. And even though a big star like Duke Snider might make a five figure salary, good money for the Fifties, it certainly wasn’t enough to give a man airs.
The data relating to real estate for sale on this web site comes in part from the participating Brokers. This page started out innocuously enough as entertainment for you, my visiting Clients. I had wanted to share something of my love for the Brooklyn Dodgers and share my sense that we had lost something inexpressible when Dodger Time came to an end in 1957. I considered posting photographs of my Brooklyn collectables, but soon realized that a model of Ebbets Field means nothing unless my visitors know what and where and why Ebbets Field was.
They lived in little houses on little plots of land in tree-lined Bay Ridge, many of them, and carpooled to work, where they parked their cars in a special lot set aside for them by the owner of the Mobil station across the street. Before work, they signed autographs for the flocks of fans—children and adults—who mobbed them at batting practice. They participated gladly, and for an extra $50.00, in the Dodgers pregame TV show,Happy Felton’s Knothole Gang, where lucky kids might get to toss a ball with Pee Wee Reese or Carl Furillo. Louis Gossett Jr. tells the story of how he was shocked into speechlessness when Jackie Robinson picked him out for a game of catch. By the time I was born, Ebbets Field was nothing but an empty plot of land slated for redevelopment. Maybe a few bricks and some left-over bits of signage and ballpark fencing were left.
He was just a good man reaching out toward another good man in need. Storytellers say that it happened in Cincinnati, but that’s almost too convenient—right across the river from Pee Wee’s native Louisville, with his friends and neighbors in attendance. No, nobody knows where it actually happened, and in all truth that is all right. On Branca’s second pitch, Thomson connected with a spectacular shot that rocketed into the stands, shattering the Dodgers’ season, taking the pennant, and making himself one half the instrument of the most famous moment in baseball. In the picture above, Jackie Robinson, with his back to the camera, is in a posture of complete disbelief. Abrams considered his time with the Dodgers to be the most meaningful of his baseball career and loved the team.
Sal “The Barber” Maglie went from throwing close-shave pitches at Dodgers to throwing close-shave pitches at Giants. My Mother’s favorite Dodger, Carl Furillo was a a member of seven National League championship teams from 1947 to 1959. He anchored right field for Brooklyn during The Era. Skoonj (the nickname came from “scungilli,” and was a nod to his Italian ancestry) batted over .300 five times and won the 1953 batting title with a .344 average. Noted for his strong and accurate throwing arm, he was also called “The Reading Rifle” after his hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania.
To make an egg cream, Seltzer was mixed with Fox’s U-bet chocolate syrup and milk from Sheffield Dairy or Borden’s (Borden’s was the preferred product in my house growing up, since it had a smiling Elsie the Cow on the bottle). Thus was this quintessentially Brooklynvin ordinairebrought into existence. If he’s asking, you don’t tell him, you take him, and then you both get lost because once you’re out of your own neighborhood you might as well be in Timbuktu. Brooklyn’s wharves were busier than New York’s. It had more breweries than either Milwaukee or St. Louis. It’s said that over 400 languages are daily spoken in Brooklyn, more than any other place in the entire world, and that people from every nation can be found within its borders.
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