Word: dodgerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Angeles Dodgers evened the National League Championship Series yesterday with a 4-1 win over the Phillies at Dodger Stadium...
...Schmidt homer turned out to be the only score of the day for either side, as Philadelphia took the first game of the National League Championship Series yesterday, 1-0, before a crowd of 49,963 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles...
Carlton not only got the win, but was also named the game's most valuable player. Reuss, the Dodger starter, took the loss, and Holland picked up a save...
...outlines of the Robinson story are, of course, familiar even to many a non-baseball fan, given the event's enormous symbolic importance. The exhaustive search by Branch Rickey, the Dodger president, for the "right" player to be the first to break baseball's color barrier; the extreme secrecy in which he shrouded his plans; the abuse Robinson had to suffer during his first years in the league--these themes have become cultural common knowledge in the wake of the wild publicity that accompanied him throughout his spectacular 1950s career. But Tygiel, a San Francisco State history professor, is able...
...even more difficult to conceive of all the ways--and Tygiel recounts many--in which baseball desegregation helped directly speed national efforts. Just consider the effect of teams bringing Blacks down to spring training. For Robinson's Dodgers, according to Tygiel, the tours through the South "challenged deeply entrenched Jim Crow traditions"--from the segregation on the trains players traveled in, the restaurants in which they ate, or the hotels where they slept. "We were paying our dues long before the civil rights marches," the great Dodger pitcher Don Newcombe told Tygiel proudly. "Martin Luther King told...