Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others: Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg of New York, Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Mrs. Mary Shotwell Ingraham of Brooklyn, one of the founders of the U.S.O. and women's adviser to the War Department...
Across the river, in Brooklyn, the Dodgers hopefully sold out all the reserved seats in Ebbets Field for the World Series, but had to postpone celebrating so long as the St. Louis Cardinals had a slim mathematical chance of tying them. At Ebbets Field, as in Yankee Stadium, the spotlight had to seek out the manager. Baseball's winning managers, 1947 style, were a long way from the loudmouth, whoop & holler style of Leo (The Lip) Durocher...
...Brooklyn Dodgers were presented with the National League pennant last night when their second place rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, were defeated by the Chicago Cubs, 6 to 3 in the night half of the day-night doubleheader...
...that Jackie would have company when the Dodgers were on the road, Rickey persuaded a Negro newsman, Wendell Smith, to travel with the club. In two cities, Jackie said, he had hotel trouble; he was not welcome at the Chase, where the Brooklyn club stays in St. Louis, or at Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin. ("They fooled me," said Jackie. "I thought it would be St. Louis and Cincinnati...
After Slaughter did his spiking job a month ago, a group of Brooklyn players came to Jackie and said: "If they give you the works, give it back to them-and the team will be behind you 100%." That was the day Jack Roosevelt Robinson won his long, patient battle...