Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pittsburgh 3, Brooklyn 2 (1st game...
Pittsburgh 0, Brooklyn 3 (2nd game...
...York Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Rockets, Buffalo Bisons, Cleveland Browns, Miami Seahawks, Los Angeles Dons and San Francisco '49ers...
Just which league was better no one yet knew. All-America had a prize crew of ex-All-Americans, such top-salaried stars as Chicago's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch; Los Angeles' "Jarrin' " John Kimbrough; Brooklyn's thread-needle passer Glen Dobbs; New York's flat-footed Frank Sinkwich; San Francisco's 245-lb. fullback Norm Standlee. So far the old league wasn't speaking to the new, though they played in three of the same cities-New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Until their feuding stopped, pro football would have no World...
...were on hand. They knew from experience that the Little World Series is baseball's best proving ground. In the early '30s at Houston, they had seen a young pitcher named Phil Cavarretta (now the Chicago Cubs' rightfielder) beat out fuzzy-cheeked Kirby Higbe (now the Brooklyn Dodgers' pitching mainstay). A few years later in Charlotte, N.C. 17-year-old Hal Newhouser (now the Detroit Tigers' 23-game winner, and the American League's most valuable player in 1944 and 1945) wept in the locker room after losing a big game. About...