Ebbets Field

Duke Snider -- Farewell, My Hero

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jackie Robinson, Los Angeles Dodgers, Ebbets Field, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, San Francisco Giants, Willie Mays, Walter O'Malley, Roy Campanella, Roger Kahn, Brooklyn Dodgers, Howard Cosell, Baseball, Duke Snider, Sports News
Robert E. Murphy

They played more than half a century ago, so most of them are gone, the Brooklyn Dodgers that I knew. This one hurts. For me and most of the kids of the 1950s, he was the one. Our hero.

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Dreaming About, and Mourning for, the Dodgers' Billy Loes

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Yankees, Billy Loes, Ebbets Field, Bill Reel. Richard Goldstein, Baltimore Orioles, Carl Erskine, New York Times, Dreams, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Daily News, Baseball, Sports News
Robert E. Murphy

I was thinking about a dream yesterday morning when, turning to the sports pages of the Times, I spotted a brief notice directing me to the obituary page: Billy Loes, 80, had died in a hospice in Tucson, Arizona.

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Baseball & Hot Dogs

Cheryl Carlesimo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebbets Field, Hot Dogs, Baseball, Yankees, Yogi Berra, Walt Whitman, Brooklyn Dodgers, Joe DiMaggio, George Duran, Food News
Cheryl Carlesimo

Our good friend George Duran, the host of Food Network's Ham on the Street, and now TLC's Ultimate Cake Off, grew up in Venezuela where baseball is an obsession, and he shared his recipe for Venezuelan Hot Dogs with us.

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Vin Scully's Last Innings

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bob Gibson, Gil Hodges, Spotsman's Park, Vin Scully, Los Angeles Dodgers, Ebbets Field, Sandy Koufax, Walter O'Malley, Red Barber. Jonathan Schwartz, Fordham, Curt Smith, Ireland, Brooklyn Dodgers, Dodger Stadium, New York News
Robert E. Murphy

Vin Scully, if he is as decent a man as I think he is, must know that the Dodgers' flight from Brooklyn for 300 acres of central Los Angeles was a shameful maneuver.

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Ebbets Field, Redux

Michael Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebbets Field, Baseball, Shea Stadium, William Shea, Walter O'Malley, Branch Rickey, New York-New York, Entertainment News
Michael Shapiro

Last night, in an arena where Shea's name fittingly joins the retired numbers of Seaver, Stengel, Hodges and Jackie Robinson, baseball witnessed a return to the past. We're back where we started.

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Damn Yankees and Their Pricey New Stadium

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Yankees, Frank Robinson, Marie Antoinette, Yankee Stadium, Sitting Bull, Native Americans, Elston Howard, The Sultan of Swat, Triple Crown, Working Class, A-Rod, Babe Ruth, Aig, Georgia on My Mind, Let Them Eat Cake, Unemployment, Mickey Mantle, Interlocking NY, Yankees, Pinstripes, Tomahawk Chop, Reggie Jackson, Bronx Bombers, Souvenir Cups, Taxpayer Subsidies, New York Mets, American League, Luxury Boxes, Ipod, Joe Six-Pack, Baltimore Orioles, The Iron Horse, Beer, Fannie Mae, Alex Rodriguez, Home Runs, Monument Park, Atlanta Braves, Freddie Mac, Ebbets Field, Hot Dogs, Joltin' Joe, Lou Gehrig, Major League Baseball, Mr. October, The Yankee Clipper, The House That Ruth Built, George Steinbrenner, Ray Charles, Brooklyn Dodgers, Joe DiMaggio, Sports, Comedy News
Dave Astor

What's not to like about a sickeningly posh edifice partly funded by massive subsidies from taxpayers who can't afford its ultra-expensive tickets and food?

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