Tag Archives: Brooklyn Dodgers

When it all goes away, when that last pitch is done and the other team is celebrating, well there is nothing worse than that.

So as I watch the game tonight I will be thinking of the spirits of all my deceased relatives who once cheered at Ebbets Field and later at good old Shea and then some of them lived to see Citi Field.

Back in 1974 when Los Angeles pitcher Tommy John had a 13-3 record before hurting his elbow, who could have guessed that the surgery Dr. Frank Jobe performed on him would save his career? More importantly, this surgery, which repairs the ulnar collateral ligament in the medial elbow by replacing …

The stupidity of a few fools does nothing to change the salient facts – Jackie Robinson is an American icon, a hero, and his legacy is eternal.

We are all young again from the moment we hear “pitchers and catchers” until that first pitch on Opening Day.

The city is abuzz with the new rivalry between its two basketball teams.

He was rooting for the team that broke his heart and against the team that had come along and saved him.

The first multidisciplinary conference to consider every aspect of a Major League Baseball franchise.

Wouldn't it be nice to one day have the conversation be about how great a ballplayer Jeremy Lin is and not how he is a great Asian-American ballplayer?

So, for the record, Brooklyn Dodgers fans, your team is not coming home.