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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Apr 18 21:21:28 2024 I guess the number of Brooklyn Dodger fans is declining. https://archive.li/7dLyD |
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Posted by N6 Limited on Wed Apr 24 23:04:27 2024, in response to RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Apr 18 21:21:28 2024. Is that who Erskine St is named after? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Apr 24 23:27:35 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by N6 Limited on Wed Apr 24 23:04:27 2024. Yes! The city planners who laid out the streets in the area were Dodger fans. |
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Posted by Bob Andersen on Fri Apr 26 12:15:51 2024, in response to RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Apr 18 21:21:28 2024. I was a Brooklyn Dodger Fan. They moved to LA when I was 9. I once got Erskine's autograph at a Mets game sometime in the late 1960's |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Apr 26 12:33:57 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Bob Andersen on Fri Apr 26 12:15:51 2024. Are there any Brooklyn Dodgers left? |
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Posted by AlM on Fri Apr 26 14:13:28 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Apr 26 12:33:57 2024. There ought to be a few. Some of the ones who were 20-ish in 1957. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Apr 26 15:10:49 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Apr 26 12:33:57 2024. Most Brooklyn Dodger fans still with us have most likely moved away, living with their kids or in assisted living. Funny nobody seems to care about the NY Giants baseball team to the degree that the Brooklyn Dodgers get. No ongoing debate about the reason for leaving, or assigning blame like you had (have) to O'Malley, Moses or then Mayor Wagner. The Giants just left town and that was it. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Fri Apr 26 17:40:50 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Apr 26 15:10:49 2024. Interesting point about the Giants. Maybe they weren't a very good team at the time? Or not many people were going to games?The design of the stadium sure was a little weird. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Apr 26 18:06:50 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by 3-9 on Fri Apr 26 17:40:50 2024. They were a mediocre team at best. Its true they played in an ancient ballpark, but so did the Dodgers. Its been said when the Dodgers left for LA, it ripped the heart and soul out of Brooklyn. There was no such outcry when the Giants left. IIRC the last game the Giants played in the Polo Grounds, only a few thousand showed up.Not much of a sendoff. Dont let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Fri Apr 26 18:24:22 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Apr 26 18:06:50 2024. It helps that the Dodgers beat the Yankees and actually win the World Series. After finally reaching the top after being underdogs for so long, I can see how the shock of having the team taken away from the fans at the team's peak would've been devastating.It sure didn't help that the Polo Grounds had zero parking. A picture was posted on subchat, I think, that showed parked cars crowded on the streets above the stadium. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Apr 26 20:12:17 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by 3-9 on Fri Apr 26 18:24:22 2024. Horace Stoneham, the owner of the Giants, was in talks to move the team to the Twin Cities (Minnesota Giants). When O’Malley decided to move to LA, he convinced him to move to SF instead because the other NL owners would have been more amenable to two teams moving to California since an eastern team could travel west to play two teams. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Apr 26 21:10:58 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Apr 24 23:27:35 2024. I thought they were only allowed to name streets after dead people. Guess they made an exception because he was alive when the street was named.Anyway, that was the excuse they used when they were asked to co-name the last block of Coney Island Avenue after Neil Sedaka. So the Department of Parks put up a sign instead which I don’t know if it’s still there. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Apr 26 22:22:44 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Apr 26 20:12:17 2024. From the useless trivia dept...The Brooklyn Dodgers were the only baseball franchise that moved while still making money. Any other baseball clubs that moved were moneylosers where they played. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Apr 27 09:30:09 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Apr 26 12:33:57 2024. Yeah. Sandy Koufax. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Apr 27 22:12:40 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by 3-9 on Fri Apr 26 18:24:22 2024. The Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium shared their parking. My father took us to a Met game at the Polo Grounds (I was pissed as I wanted to go by subway) and we parked close to Yankee Stadium and walked across the bridge along with hundreds of others. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Apr 28 12:19:18 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Apr 27 09:30:09 2024. Also this guy.https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2024-04-26/art-schallock-100-birthday-oldest-living-mlb-player-yankees-dodgers-yogi-berra-mickey-mantle Schallock, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, certainly has had the last laugh. He celebrated his 100th birthday with a party Thursday at Cogir on Napa Road, the Sonoma assisted-living facility he calls home. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sun Apr 28 13:46:39 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Apr 27 22:12:40 2024. Wasn't that kind of a long walk over the 155th St bridge? And did the Yankees and Giants coordinate their games?I guess your father was an early car adopter. |
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Posted by AlM on Sun Apr 28 14:10:08 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by 3-9 on Sun Apr 28 13:46:39 2024. I guess your father was an early car adopter.Was that a joke? You do realize that plenty of people in the outer boroughs had cars circa 1957, don't you? :) |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Apr 28 14:35:57 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by AlM on Sun Apr 28 14:10:08 2024. IKR |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 28 16:05:54 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Easy on Sun Apr 28 12:19:18 2024. That’s fantastic |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 28 16:11:40 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by 3-9 on Sun Apr 28 13:46:39 2024. I’m sure the league made sure they weren’t home at the same much like today. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Apr 28 18:00:04 2024, in response to Re: RIP Carl Erskine, posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Apr 26 12:33:57 2024. Tommy Brown, played on the Dodgers from 1944 to 1951. |
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