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Word: brooklyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn 5, Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major League Baseball | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

Chicago 3, Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major League Baseball | 5/1/1947 | See Source »

Chicago 6, Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major League Baseball | 4/30/1947 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, rough-tough Johnny Torrio, ex-Chicago bootleg king and Al Capone's sometime mentor, who quit the rackets after he was shot up in 1925, heaved a big sigh of relief. At his solicitation, the FBI had finally rounded up two men accused of sending him a threatening letter last September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...surprises, as usual, popped out of Branch Rickey's Brooklyn surprise box. First, a last-minute switch nudged aging Arky Vaughan off third base, and gave the job to scrawny John ("Spider") Jorgensen; the rookie from Montreal batted in six runs in one game. Then Rickey announced that soft-spoken Burt Shotton, 62, would succeed exile Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as manager of the Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Batter Up! | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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