That was a heartbreaking time for Ron Schweiger, a Brooklyn borough historian who has fond childhood memories of seeing the team play at Ebbets Field. At the time, games on television were in ...
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.
The ghosts of “Dem Bums” still linger in Brooklyn. It’s been decades since the Brooklyn Dodgers left the subways and New York ...
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. Maintenance workers at the Ebbets Field ...
In its place rose the Ebbets Field Apartments complex, a sprawling rental development that looms where there used to be a ballpark (and before the ballpark, a garbage dump named Pigtown).
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - New York Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio (5) slides home safely in the ninth inning to score his team ...
In the beginning, the World Series matchup of the Dodgers against the Yankees was a kind of charming intra-city showdown of ...
Though he lined a ball off the right field wall at old Ebbets Field during that tryout, he was soon advised to pursue other career plans. A diehard fan, Adler found another avenue. Following the ...
On the other hand, how can a native of Brooklyn root for the team that abandoned Ebbets Field? This will be the 12th time the Dodgers and Yankees have met in the World Series, and it’s the fifth ...
Two of baseball's most successful teams face each other starting Friday at Dodger Stadium, the Yankees coming off their 41st ...
After Don Larsen’s perfect game at Yankee Stadium in Game 5 put them up 3-2, the Dodgers won 1-0 in 10 innings in Game 6 before Yogi Berra’s two-homer day in a Game 7 clincher at Ebbets Field.
The Yankees and Dodgers renewed their historic rivalry in the 2024 World Series, adding a new chapter to Major League ...