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List of Atlantic hurricane seasons The Last Good Season : Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 The following is a list of Atlantic hurricane seasons. 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 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 communities along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts prepare for hurricane season, the... hallencyclopedia.com /List_of_Atlantic_hurricane_seasons

Walter O'Malley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1942 he was appointed the attorney for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and he became the president and chief stockholder on October 26, 1950. Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 - August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. But following the 1957 season, he moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles after he met resistance in replacing the aging Ebbets Field stadium. www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Walter_O'Malley   (382 words)

Q & A With Vin Scully - PittsburghLIVE.com Scully, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, joined the legendary Red Barber as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers' radio broadcast team in 1950 and followed the team west in 1958. Vin Scully, 75, is in his 54th season as a broadcaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers have won six World Series titles and seven National League pennants during Scully's time with the team. www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_131418.html   (658 words)

The Preacher Preacher Roe had 12 years in the majors, seven of them with the Brooklyn Dodgers where his team never finished less than third, was in World Series three times (1949, 1952, 1953), lost the pennant by two games in 1950, and by only one in 1951. The Preacher explained that at the beginning of the 1947 season, Walker told Rickey that he wanted to be traded because of Jackie Robinson. That was the world of Preacher Roe in the 1940’s and 1950’s. www.chatterfromthedugout.com /preacher.htm   (658 words)

Billy Loes Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac Loes was 20 years old when he broke into the big leagues on May 18, 1950, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page. Did you know that you can compare Billy Loes to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1950 National League season? Billy Loes's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Billy Loes baseball statistics page. www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=loesbi01   (658 words)

SBF Glossary: A to AAZN For 1949, AAFC Dodgers merged with the stronger local AAFC team to become the Brooklyn-New York Yankees, the same year that the NFL's Boston Yanks moved and became the New York Bulldogs. In 1950, with the AAFC Yankees defunct and many of the players distributed by draft to other NFL teams, the San Francisco Forty-Niners played their first regular season game in the NFL on September 17 -- a 21-17 loss to the New York Yanks. For 1946-1948, there were two AAFC teams in the five boroughs: the New York Yankees and the sorry Brooklyn Dodgers. www.plexoft.com /SBF/A.html   (658 words)

Ted Kluszewski Kluszewski, Gus Bell and Bob Thurman became the second trio of teammates with a 3-HR game in the same season (1956), sharing a major league single season record with Duke Snider, Roy Campanella and Tommy Brown (Brooklyn Dodgers, 1950) and Cory Snyder, Joe Carter and Brook Jacoby (Cleveland Indians, 1987). Widely recognized for his huge biceps and big forearms, the 6-foot, 2-inch, 240-pounder Kluszewski was one of the most feared major league hitters in his prime, despite the fact that he was often injured and only had four complete seasons in a 15-year playing career. Basically used as a pinch hitter, he hit.243 with 15 home runs and 39 RBI in 107 games, retiring at the end of the season. ted-kluszewski.encyc.dyndns.dk   (658 words)

St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Vin Scully Scully joined the Brooklyn Dodgers&; broadcast team in 1950, just a year after graduating from Fordham University. After the 1997 season, Scully retired from national broadcasting to concentrate solely on his local responsibilities with the Dodgers. One of sports broadcasting's most recognizable voices, Vin Scully is known primarily as the long-time play-by-play announcer for baseball& Dodgers. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201085   (233 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. The Boston Yanks moved to New York City anyway for the 1949 season. They were soon renamed the New York Yanks in the winter of 1950. www.mindspring.com /~luckyshow/football/NYYanksBulldogs.htm   (233 words)

CNN/SI - Baseball - Phillies Hall-of-Famer Richie Ashburn dead at 70 - September 9, 1997 Among all of the things he did in his career, Ashburn might be best remembered for throwing out a Brooklyn Dodgers runner at the plate to preserve a tie and help the Phillies win in extra innings and on to the 1950 World Series against the New York Yankees. Ashburn finished his career with the Mets in their first season, 1962, and joined the Phillies as a broadcaster the following season. Ashburn broadcasted the Phillies' game against the New York Mets on Monday night and later died in his room at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. www.cnn.com /cnnsi/baseball/mlb/nl/news/1997/09/09/news.obitashbrn.html   (594 words)

Baseball Direct - #1 online source for baseball videos, books & calendars The youngest major league team ever capped a Cinderella season by winning the pennant from the heavily favored Brooklyn Dodgers on the last day of the season. The story of the 1950 Phillies as told by Hall-of-Famer Robin Roberts. , by Robin Roberts and C. Paul Rogers III www.baseballdirect.com /books_team.html   (2202 words)

Philadelphia Artwork by Bill Goff Ashburn, of course, was a member of the 1950 Whiz Kids, who won the National League pennant by defeating the Dodgers in extra innings on the last day of the season. It’s 1953 here, and that’s Ashburn eluding the tag of Brooklyn catcher Rube Walker during a game at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. The other "identifiable" players in the scene are Stanley "Stosh" Lopata (C), Eddie Waitkus (1B), Connie Ryan (2B), Granny Hamner (SS), Willie "Puddin' Head" Jones (3B), Del Ennis (LF), Richie Ashburn (CF) and Johnny Wyrostek (RF). www.dugout-memories.com /goffphi.html   (2202 words)

The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) According to a recent biography of Robinson the film was made in California in the early months of 1950 and rushed into movie houses in time for the 1950 baseball season. There's no real explanation of just WHY it was Robinson who Branch Rickey selected to integrate the Brooklyn Dodgers and major league baseball. After Jackie Robinson had his career year in 1949(batting champion and National League Most Valuable Player, he was apparently talked into appearing in this cheaply made autobiographical story by Dodger President Branch Rickey. us.imdb.com /title/tt0042609   (679 words)

Vin Scully - BR Bullpen He began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 and moved with the club in 1957. Vin Scully is an announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Scully also called NFL games on CBS television from 1975 to 1982. www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Vin_Scully   (245 words)

The story of Willie Mays In 1951, Mays jumped to the big league club, winning the Rookie of the Year award and leading the Giants to the National League pennant after trailing the Brooklyn Dodgers by 13-1/2 games late in the season. As a player for the Birmingham Black Barons in 1947, the New York Giants saw Mays’ talents and signed him to a minor league contract in 1950. ohoh.essortment.com /storyofwilli_rrdd.htm   (328 words)

EricEnders.com - History of the Negro League East-West Game Two years later, Black, the East’s starting pitcher in 1950, was pitching Game One of the World Series for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Not only was it still the centerpiece of the Negro League season, but now it became an important showcase for the best black players to show their stuff in front of major league scouts. In years when the Negro Leagues were financially unstable, the owners relied on the windfall from the East-West Game for most of their annual income. www.ericenders.com /eastwest.htm   (328 words)

The Year Was 1950 The year was 1950, the date was September 19, and the Philadelphia Phillies led the Brooklyn Dodgers by 9 games with 15 left to play. When the season dwindled to a precious single game, so too had Philadelphia’s lead. The team known as the “Whiz Kids” beat the Braves in a single game on Tuesday and then went to New York where they lost consecutive doubleheaders. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/baseball/114640   (539 words)

The Barber 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. 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. www.chatterfromthedugout.com /barber.htm   (539 words)

Baseball Digest: 1950: when Philadelphia's Whiz Kids won the N.L. pennant; memories still rich for those who brought Phillies their first National League title in 35 years - Turn Back The Clock And the fondest memory was probably of that October 1 Sunday when the Whiz Kids, as they were affectionately known by their fans, clinched the National League flag on the season's final day by defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-1. Baseball Digest: 1950: when Philadelphia's Whiz Kids won the N.L. pennant; memories still rich for those who brought Phillies their first National League title in 35 years - Turn Back The Clock The occasion, which took place at Veterans Stadium, was the fifty-year reunion in 2000 to honor the squad that won the pennant in '50. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_11_61/ai_92521923/pg_1   (1630 words)

The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field And The Story Of The Brooklyn Dodgers Whether they were called the Dodgers, Superbas, or Robins the Brooklyn version of the team has cemented its place in baseball history. I had the privilege of meeting bob McGee at a commemoration of the Brooklyn Dodgers' only winning World Series and was amazed to learn he was a bit too young to have ever gone to Ebbets Field in person. Author Bob McGee provides us with a detailed account of the team's history dating from the opening of Ebbets Field in 1913 until their infamous move following the 1957 season orchestrated by a man who's name will not appear here. www.top-selling-dvds.com /0813536006   (650 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. After a 19-11 record in 1950, Newcombe went 20-9 and led the NL in strikeouts with 164 in 1951. 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. www.hickoksports.com /biograph/newcombedon.shtml   (299 words)

St. Louis Cardinals on Baseball Almanac The 1946 Cards finished in a first-place tie with Brooklyn, and defeated the Dodgers two straight in baseball's first ever league playoff series before beating the Red Sox in seven games. Louis fielded competitive teams in the 1950's but it was an infusion of talent late in that decade — players such as Lou Brock, Curt Flood, Bill White and Bob Gibson that put the team in three Fall Classics during the 1960s. After he came to St. Louis in a 1997 trade, Mark McGwire smashed one of the game's most hallowed records, slamming a single-season record seventy home runs in 1998. www.baseball-almanac.com /teams/cards.shtml   (1231 words)

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