As it is for a dwindling group of aging Dodgers fans and their families, the choice is a near-impossible one: the abandonment of Brooklyn in ... 1953, 1955 and 1956. Though the Dodgers won ...

Major League Baseball began handing out a World Series MVP award in 1955. Ironically, the first two were given to a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and a member of the New York Yankees.

That history began when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, their home for the first ... Sandy Amoros' grab of a Yogi Berra drive in Game 7 of the 1955 Fall Classic is one of the most iconic ...

Stengel’s Yankees won three of them, missing only in 1955 when the “Wait till next year!” Dodgers finally captured their first World Series championship. Brooklyn led the ’52 Series 3-2 ...

For Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron ... referring to the Dodgers’ only World Series victory over the Yankees in 1955. Schweiger owns a substantial collection of Dodgers memorabilia, including ...

I spoke with Abby Tedesco, 90, who participated in the big celebration in front of the Hotel Bossert on Montague Street that October afternoon in 1955 when the Brooklyn Dodgers toppled the Yankees ...

Their tenacious patience was rewarded in 1955 when the Dodgers triumphed over the Yankees, claiming their first and only title in Brooklyn, the greatest achievement for the franchise up to that ...

The following 30 years would see Brooklyn win the NL pennant a further ... the first Black player in the modern major leagues. In 1955, the Dodgers – beaten by the Yankees in each of their ...

the only one in which the Brooklyn Dodgers would ever reign as world champions. Seventy-seven times it had declared for the world that Next Year had arrived last year, in 1955, and that the ...

The day had gone perfectly, as far as the citizens of Brooklyn were concerned ... was like to be there on Oct. 4, 1955, when Next Year finally arrived for the Dodgers, or on Oct. 5, 1949, when ...

By now, Mr. Askotzky knows what they are looking for: a small plaque that marks the location of home plate at Ebbets Field, the long-ago-dismantled home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Mr. Askotzky ...

There really is a magic about this, the way there was back in the 1940s and ’50s, when it was the Yankees against the Boys of Summer Brooklyn ... Dodgers finally beat the Yankees in seven in 1955.