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The Real Reasons for the Rise & Fall of the Dodgers (And What It Means for...
Demolition of Ebbets Field By MICHAEL SHAPIRO When you grow up in the Brooklyn I knew, which was pretty much the worst possible time – just missing the Dodgers and years before it got so cool – your...
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Where is the Jackie Robinson Flagpole?
Click for full-sized image.Not even a month after Barclays Center, Brooklyn, and the Brooklyn Nets officially commemorated the Jackie Robinson Flagpole, it has disappeared. The flagpole, which once...
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The Dodgers Lived in Brooklyn. Why Can’t the Nets?
The Jackie Robinson House, 5224 Tilden, where he lived rookie year The decision of Deron Williams to buy a place in Manhattan instead of Brooklyn is a lost opportunity. The Brooklyn Dodgers were...
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Why Jackie Robinson “Fell In Love With Brooklyn”
From 1947 to 1949, Jackie Robinson lived at 5224 Tilden Avenue, near the Utica Avenue subway stop, which Councilman Juumane Williams wants to make a historic landmark. Actually, that was Robinson’s...
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From NBC New York: A statue of Jackie Robinson outside Brooklyn’s minor league baseball stadium in Coney Island was vandalized with a racial slur and a swastika, police said. The NYPD hate crimes task...
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