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No, the real heirs to the Brooklyn Dodgers were found at Fenway this year, exuding the same agreeable mix of delight and frustration as their Flatbush predecessors.
The Dodgers seemed poised to avenge this loss in Game Four after taking a 4-3 lead into the ninth. But Casey's apparent game-ending third strike on Tommy Henrich eluded luckless catcher Mickey Owen, and the Yankees rallied once more, for a 7-4 win. New York subsequently...
Yet I compare the Red Sox to the Dodgers in a positive sense. The link between teams placed half a century apart is that both succeeded in rekindling a small light of hope that is too often extinguished.
Much like Tiffany's to Holly Golightly in Hepburn's greatest movie, baseball can offer a haven of peace in a world of turmoil. The promise of renewal held in baseball--for there is always another game and, as the Red Sox and Dodgers would remind us, another season--offers...
Kahn, a native Brooklynite who covered the Dodgers for the New York Herald-Tribune throughout the 1950s, always tried to resist the temptation to make mental assumptions about how a given game would turn out.