Word: brooklynã
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...Dodgers had also represented Brooklyn??€™s unique identity. Decades ago, Manhattan’s dominance in almost every realm that mattered—money, political power, press—enabled it to exert an almost tyrannical influence on what once had been the nation’s fourth largest city. This supremacy extended to the diamond, where the Yankees and Giants won pennant after pennant. In the Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn??€™s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city—Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal...