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 ...
The New York Yankees and the L.A. Dodgers faced off in this year's 2024 World Series. The 'Brooklyn' Dodgers used to be a New York-based team before they left for California in 1957. WFUV’s ...
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 ...
The Los Angeles Dodgers are one of the oldest and most successful teams in Major League Baseball (MLB). Formerly known as the Brooklyn Dodgers, this team is notable for recruiting the first ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
It was the first time the Dodgers would be in New York City since Sept. 24, 1957, the last day of business for Ebbets Field over in Brooklyn. It was their first time in the Polo Grounds — where ...
Dodgers finally captured their first World Series championship. Brooklyn led the ’52 Series 3-2 before home runs in Game 6 by Berra and Mickey Mantle helped New York stay alive.