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They lined up. In the small hours after the New York Yankees won Game Three of the 1949 World Series with a three-run outburst in the top of the ninth that broke a 1-1 tie, the Brooklyn faithful lined up. Solo shots by Luis Olmo and Roy Campanella in the Dodgers half of the ninth […]

As pennant races go, the 1949 races in both the American and National Leagues were among the closest in history. In the American League, the New York Yankees trailed the Boston Red Sox by one game with two to play (in Yankee Stadium) and won them both to win the AL title. In the National […]

Considered one of the best defensive shortstops of his era, Hall of Famer and 10-time All-Star Pee Wee Reese was the quiet yet forceful captain of the postwar Dodgers. (Photo: SABR-Rucker Archive)   Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field was hosting the All-Star Game for the first time, the last of the major league locations in existence in […]

The final score of the game between Brooklyn and Cincinnati on June 12, 1949, looked like that of a football game. Gil Hodges and Billy Cox were the offensive stars for the red-hot Dodgers. Except that they weren’t scoring or passing for touchdowns; they were hitting home runs and driving in runs in bunches that […]

Gene Hermanski’s name will forever be etched in the long history of professional baseball in Brooklyn, dating back to the city’s teams in the National Association (1872-1875), American Association (1884-1889), and the National League beginning in 1890. Despite hitting only 46 home runs in his nine-year career, spent primarily as a reserve with three different […]

The 31,278 fans who came through the turnstiles at Ebbets Field on July 30, 1948, saw something to always remember from the unlikeliest of hitters. Pittsburgh’s Wally Westlake hit for the cycle against the Brooklyn Dodgers.1 Westlake had gone 2-for-24 (two singles) in his previous seven games, a stretch that had seen his batting average […]

The 28,770 holiday fans who filed into Ebbets Field on the Fourth of July in 1948 came to watch the Brooklyn Dodgers play their crosstown rival, the New York Giants. Some may have planned to watch fireworks that evening after the game. Little could they have suspected that they were about to see an early […]

Brooklyn fans could barely believe what they were seeing. After losing the first two games of the 1947 World Series, their team rebounded to win the next two games at Ebbets Field. The fifth game, the last one to be played in Flatbush for the Series, was packed with fans hoping to see the Dodgers […]

When the New York Yankees won the first two games of the 1947 World Series, many fans started calling it the “worst World Series in history.”1 After Brooklyn beat the Yankees 9-8 in Game Three, Dodgers fans showed up at Ebbets Field hoping to see their team even the Series. History-minded Brooklyn fans might have […]

The Dodgers were in a hole after losing the first two games of the World Series to their crosstown rivals the Yankees. But now the Series was headed to Ebbets Field and the Dodger faithful were confident that their team could bounce back. “Now that we’ve got the Yanks in our own backyard, they can’t […]