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	Brooklyn Dodgers Football Records (1930-1944, 1946-1948))
		Following the 1944 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers folded, the players going to the Boston Yanks franchise, playing in 1945 nominally as the Brooklyn-Boston Yanks, though this name was only used for their only New York “home” game.
		The Brooklyn Dodgers were renamed the Brooklyn Tigers for the 1944 season.
		This deal was rejected by the A.A.F.C. In January, 1949, the Brooklyn Dodgers folded, merging with the New York Yankees, the new team to play at Yankee Stadium.
	www.mindspring.com /~luckyshow/football/BkDodgers.htm

	Amazon.ca: Books: Brooklyn Dodgers
		First published in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Putnam series of team histories, Frank Graham's colorful chronicle presents the Brooklyn Dodgers in "all their glory and all their daffiness" from the team's beginnings as the Atlantics in 1883 through 1943, with a short summary of the 1944 season.
		In the 1930s, the inept Dodgers provoked laughter until Larry MacPhail moved from Cincinnati to Brooklyn in 1938; one year later, the Dodgers were contenders.
		He covered the Brooklyn Dodgers until they left for Los Angeles in the late 1950s, when his beat switched to the Yankees and the Mets.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/080932413X

	List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
		The Last Good Season : Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together
		1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
		communities along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts prepare for hurricane season, the...
	hallencyclopedia.com /List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_seasons

	List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
		The Last Good Season : Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together
		1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
		communities along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts prepare for hurricane season, the...
	hallencyclopedia.com /List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_seasons

	List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
		The Last Good Season : Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together
		1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
		for the June-to-December Atlantic hurricane season: seven to nine...
	hallencyclopedia.com /List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_seasons

	African Americans in the Sports Arena
		Robinson was playing shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs for only one season in the year of 1945 when he was approached and persuaded by Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers general manager, to join the Dodger Organization.
		Robinson became the first African American to play in major league baseball when Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, signed Robinson up as the first African American in modern day history to cross over with a contract to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
		Robinson knew how bad the rewards, recognition, and money were in the Negro League, therefore he decided to take a chance, and he signed his first contract to play with the Montreal Royals of the Dodger's minor league club on August 28, 1945.
	www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/aaitsa.htm (14867 words)

	African Americans in the Sports Arena
		Robinson was playing shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs for only one season in the year of 1945 when he was approached and persuaded by Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers general manager, to join the Dodger Organization.
		His entrance to the major league was on April 15, 1947 when Robinson made his debut as a player at Ebbets Fields for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
		October 23, 1945 was the date that Robinson signed a contract to play with the Montreal Royals, a minor league affiliate of the Dodgers.
	www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/aaitsa.htm (14867 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jackie Robinson (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In Oct., 1945, Branch Rickey, then president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, signed Robinson to play for the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn farm club in the International League.
		Despite several incidents in spring training in the South and many inconveniences during the season, Robinson : the first African-American ballplayer in that league : excelled as a second baseman and won the league batting crown.
		He entered the army in World War II and was discharged as a lieutenant in 1945.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/RbnsnJk.html (403 words)

	African Americans in the Sports Arena
		Robinson was playing shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs for only one season in the year of 1945 when he was approached and persuaded by Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers general manager, to join the Dodger Organization.
		Robinson was first assigned to the Dodgers' minor league affiliate, The Montreal Royals on October 23, 1945.
		Robinson's life was on constant "view." He was a celebrity, but he still had to encounter racial prejudice and bigoted remarks as he played against other teams who had no African American players in 1949.
	www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/aaitsa.htm (14867 words)

	New York Bulldogs/Yanks (1949-1951)
		The Brooklyn Dodgers merged with the New York Yankees becoming the Brooklyn - New York Yankees, playing in Yankee Stadium as the All America Conference continued in 1949.
		This team tried to lease Yankee Stadium for home games, but in the end played only one game there for the 1945 seaason as the Brooklyn-Boston Yanks.
		The Boston Yanks moved to New York City anyway for the 1949 season.
	www.mindspring.com /~luckyshow/football/NYYanksBulldogs.htm (14867 words)

	Red Barber on Broadway
		Red Barber remained in Brooklyn through the 1953 season, then he joined the Yankees as a broadcaster through the 1966 season before returning to Florida.
		Red Barber had been alerted by Branch Rickey, then the Dodgers president, as early as 1945 to the breaking of baseball's color line.
		Red Barber planned to be in tonight's audience along with Duke Snider and Ralph Branca from the 1947 Dodger team, Larry Doby (baseball's second black big leaguer) and Leo Durocher (who managed Jackie Robinson in spring training in 1947 prior to his suspension).
	partners.nytimes.com /library/sports/backtalk/080500anderson111781.html (14867 words)

	Ben Chapman (baseball player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After managing in the lower minor leagues in the early 1940s - where he was once suspended for an altercation with an umpire - Chapman resurfaced as a pitcher in the wartime National League with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1944-45) and the Phillies (1945-46).
		The team improved somewhat through the end of 1945, and climbed to fifth place in 1946, the first year of the postwar baseball boom and the last season in which the color line was in force.
		Chapman, who batted and threw righthanded, was a teammate of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bill Dickey and other Hall of Famers on the Yankees from 1930 through the middle of 1936.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Chapman_(baseball_player) (474 words)

	Pete Reiser BaseballLibrary.com
		In 1941, Pete Reiser, in his first full season with the Dodgers, became the National League's youngest batting champion ever, hitting.343.
		Although Reiser's mishaps are credited with prompting the padding of outfield walls and the universal use of warning tracks, the move came too late to preserve what many felt was the greatest talent Brooklyn had ever seen.
		Reiser will go north with Brooklyn and play in an April 15th exhibition against the Yankees in Ebbets Field before being farmed out to Elmira.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/R/Reiser_Pete.stm (474 words)

	Brooklyn Dodgers Football Records (1930-1944, 1946-1948))
		Following the 1944 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers folded, the players going to the Boston Yanks franchise, playing in 1945 nominally as the Brooklyn-Boston Yanks, though this name was only used for their only New York “home” game.
		This deal was rejected by the A.A.F.C. In January, 1949, the Brooklyn Dodgers folded, merging with the New York Yankees, the new team to play at Yankee Stadium.
		As part of the agreement, the AAFC Brooklyn Dodgers would be eliminated.
	www.mindspring.com /~luckyshow/football/BkDodgers.htm (474 words)

	The Barber
		The 180-pound, 6’2” Maglie made his major league debut on August 8, 1945, about the same time the war was ending, and finished his season with a 5 and 4 record that included a 2.35 ERA and three shutouts.
		Maglie became famous for beating the Dodgers, and it was Brooklyn’s Pee Wee Reese who said, “Sal was probably the one pitcher we least wanted to see.
		Sal Maglie was an intimidating right-handed pitcher for the three New York teams in the 1950’s.
	www.chatterfromthedugout.com /barber.htm (474 words)

	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tickets - Buy Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tickets, LA Memorial Coliseum
		The LA Coliseum complex provided a home for the Rams (from Cleveland, 1946-79), the Dodgers (from Brooklyn, 1958-61) and the Lakers (from Minneapolis, 1960-68), and was the growth home of the San Diego Chargers (1960, AFL) and Kings (1967, NHL).
		The 92,516 seat LA Coliseum served as the home of the Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL from 1982 from end to end the 1994 season, and at present serves as the home for the University of Southern California football (since 1923), and international soccer competition for the LA Coliseum Tickets for less.
		The LA Coliseum and Sports Arena are under the power of the Los Angeles Coliseum charge, which was shaped under the Joint work out of Powers Act on September 25, 1945 for the best LA Coliseum Tickets sale of the year.
	www.rhinotickets.com /la-events/LA-cloiseum-tickets (983 words)

	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tickets - Buy Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tickets, LA Memorial Coliseum
		The LA Coliseum complex provided a home for the Rams (from Cleveland, 1946-79), the Dodgers (from Brooklyn, 1958-61) and the Lakers (from Minneapolis, 1960-68), and was the growth home of the San Diego Chargers (1960, AFL) and Kings (1967, NHL).
		The 92,516 seat LA Coliseum served as the home of the Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL from 1982 from end to end the 1994 season, and at present serves as the home for the University of Southern California football (since 1923), and international soccer competition for the LA Coliseum Tickets for less.
		The LA Coliseum and Sports Arena are under the power of the Los Angeles Coliseum charge, which was shaped under the Joint work out of Powers Act on September 25, 1945 for the best LA Coliseum Tickets sale of the year.
	www.rhinotickets.com /la-events/LA-cloiseum-tickets (983 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Don Newcombe
		The first black pitcher to star in the major leagues, Newcombe was with the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League in 1944 and 1945 before signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
		The 6-foot-4, 225-pound Newcombe had a 17-8 record and led the league with 5 shutouts in his first season, winning the Rookie of the Year Award.
		After a 19-11 record in 1950, Newcombe went 20-9 and led the NL in strikeouts with 164 in 1951.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/newcombedon.shtml (299 words)

	History of Baseball
		After Bithorm the next puertorican was Luis Rodriguez Olmo who played with the Brooklyn Dodgers when he started playing in June 22, 1945.
		In total, his career in major league in 4 season he had pitched in 105 games won 34 games and lost 31 with an era of 3.16.
		He was the first to play in a World Series.His numbers after 6 years in the major league was.281 batting average with 29 homeruns and 458 hits in 462 games.
	members.tripod.com /gumster/history.htm (299 words)

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