The Brooklyn Dodgers were affiliated with a team in L.A. (2, 452), before moving there themselves.
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After the ballpark was built, the Old Stone House served as a clubhouse for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Notes: Former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine, who lives in nearby Anderson, Ind.
Some young fans forget that three pro teams once lived comfortably in New York City, before the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers left for California.
In Miami, the ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by Norman Berman, the ballboy for the Brooklyn Dodgers the year Robinson was a rookie.
The 2006 AL Rookie of the Year, Verlander joined the Brooklyn Dodgers' Don Newcombe as the only players to win all three majors awards in their careers.
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He stopped in at 680 Fifth Avenue, where Branch Rickey, the former president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was attempting to bring a new team to the city.
On Oct. 3, 1951, Thomson, an outfielder with the New York Giants, hit a pennant-winning home run off of the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds.
Top of the ninth, Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Dodgers one pitch away from tying the series at two games apiece against the hated New York Yankees.
Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, is drawing special attention this year with the release of the film "42, " which went into wide release last weekend.
Mr. Kennedy discovered the prints after he and Marty Adler, founder of the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame, convinced the city Department of Buildings to allow them into an archival subbasement.
In the beginning, there was the lordly general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), a Bible-quoting, sixty-four-year-old Republican with a strong moralistic streak and a sharp eye for business.
The film stars Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers boss Branch Rickey, who brought No. 42 onto the team in 1947 as the Major Leagues' first black player.
Fred Wilpon, the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Mets, has built a fitting tribute to his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers in the form of Citi Field.
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Collins' coach with the Celtics, Doc Rivers, drew a comparison between Monday's announcement and Jackie Robinson's role when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
May 22, 1946 Len Merullo of the Chicago Cubs and Dixie Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers fight during batting practice at Ebbets Field after Merullo and Brooklyn's Pee Wee Reese start arguing.
The film follows Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League Baseball, as he plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and highlights the bond that formed between Robinson and Dodgers general manager and president, Branch Rickey.
As a National League expansion franchise whose original core audience was comprised of recently abandoned fans of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, the Mets set out to distinguish themselves as a fun, family-oriented alternative to the corporate, buttoned down Yankees.
The lone remaining player to wear Robinson's number sat in front of a sculpture of the Brooklyn Dodgers star's No. 42, and chatted about everything from his cut fastball to the 2000 World Series that pitted New York's teams against one another in a true Subway Series.
Just as the signing of Jackie Robinson turned many Negro League fans into Brooklyn Dodgers fans in the 1940s, Japanese fans in 1995 so took to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the team signed pitching icon Hideo Nomo that the club started its own Japanese TV network.
The new movie 42, mainly about baseball legend Jackie Robinson and his rookie year playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, is, in equal parts, a paean to his consummate athletic talent and a bearing witness to his resilience as the first African-American player in big league baseball.
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Pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers in a National League playoff against the rival New York Giants, Branca, who had just come in to relieve starter Don Newcombe with two men on base and the Dodgers holding a 4-2 lead, served up a ninth-inning home run ball to Bobby Thomson.
In an era when African-Americans were still barred from participating in most mainstream sports (it would be more than 60 years before Jackie Robinson made his ground-breaking debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers), African-American jockeys went on to dominate the early years of the Derby, winning 15 of the first 28 races.
The media industry's pied piper, Rupert Murdoch, may take most pride in owning the New York Post, but he has forced himself to live in Los Angeles and buy the (formerly Brooklyn) Dodgers.
Kim Maier, executive director of the Old Stone House, offers a couple of other fun Dodger facts: The team was called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers because trolleys running along Third Avenue made it tricky to get into the park.
Former Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine performed the National Anthem on a harmonica.
After all, the Dodgers left Brooklyn in 1957, and Ebbets Field was demolished shortly thereafter.
Earlier this year, Duke Snider, the center fielder for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers in their heyday, passed, breaking the hearts of many.
Mr. Koufax, a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers and childhood friend of Mr. Wilpon's, was listed as a potential witness.
This was the first pro sporting event he'd attended in Brooklyn since 1957, when the Dodgers left for Los Angeles.
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