...FALLS, N.Y. -- Johnny Podres, who pitched the Brooklyn Dodgers to their only World Series title in 1955, died Sunday at the age of 75. Johnny Podres, with Roy Campanella, right and Don Hoak, was at the center of Brooklyn's celebration after winning Game 7...
...seven Brooklyn teams posted better marks than that. This surprised me a bit. I tend to think of the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers as forty odd years of general ineptitude, capped off by a decade of shining, if invariably frustrated, brilliance. And when...
...a Hall of Famer, was one of the most prolific hitters in his era. Snider, who played center field as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was seldom compared to two other New York center fielders, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. Snider, a nine-time All-Star,...
...will forever be remembered as the baby-faced kid who beat the Yankees in Game 7 of the 1955 World Series, giving the Brooklyn Dodgers their only World championship. But Podres did a lot more than that, helping the Dodgers win three World Series after they...
...a major-league baseball team without a permanent spring home to create Dodgertown on that station. The idea for then-Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey was to create a college atmosphere for his players. They lived in Navy barracks with walls so thin...
...to Bump. Shortly after World War II, his father, a wealthy Vero Beach businessman named Bud Holman, somehow persuaded the Brooklyn Dodgers to spend their spring trainings at an abandoned naval station on the isolated outskirts of town. A match was made, and...
...in the 10 years Robinson played for them. I believe they were the most exciting and important major league team ever. The Brooklyn Dodgers integrated baseball and through baseball, the country. I used to say, "No Jackie Robinson, no Martin Luther King." Lately...
...owner Bobby McCarthy, it marks the beginning of the end for the Dodgers in Vero Beach. Jan. 25 — that's the day former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, 82, is scheduled to stop in for his first of several dinners at McCarthy's oceanfront seafood restaurant,...
...facility use agreement. After calling Vero Beach their spring training home for 61 years dating to when they were the Brooklyn Dodgers, they informed Indian River County, Fla., officials that they were exercising their option to terminate the agreement in...
...to Bump. Shortly after World War II, his father, a wealthy Vero Beach businessman named Bud Holman, somehow persuaded the Brooklyn Dodgers to spend their spring trainings at an abandoned naval station on the isolated outskirts of town. A match was made, and...