Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...luck to fall in love with baseball at the start of an era of pure delight for New York fans," she writes. "What a storied lineup my Dodgers had in the postwar seasons: Roy Campanella started behind the plate, Gil Hodges at first, Jackie Robinson at second, Pee Wee Reese at short, Billy Cox at third, Gene Hermanski in left, Duke Snider in center, and Carl Furillo in right...Never would there be a better time to be a Dodger...
Robinson's teammates were no better. With the exception of players like Pee Wee Reese and Dodger president Branch Rickey, whites on the team left Robinson alone to struggle against racial hatred and intolerance. Off the field, Robinson was subjected to the perpetual threat of violence hanging over his head. A weaker man would have understandably crumbled under the pressure and perhaps delayed the racial integration for years. Had Robinson been a mediocre player his actions would have been amazing enough. Yet Jackie Robinson was one of the most outstanding players to ever play the game. His decade...
...game. It is obviously not a question of quality since this general manager, Bob Watson, helped build the World Series winners in New York. Finally, there have never been any African-American owners or team presidents. What is most distressing of all is the notion, as expressed by then Dodger vice-president Al Campanis 10 years ago, that blacks lacked "the necessities" to become managers or front-office workers. Regardless of what African-Americans (and Latinos) accomplish, they are still seen as men in baseball uniforms, and not in business suits...
...25th anniversary report, Granger said he spent a "four-year career as a draft dodger" before he went onto his illustrious career as a playwright and that he still regretted not having a chance to live out more of his community service ideals...
...sports bar in Brooklyn that was sued for calling itself "The Brooklyn Dodger" had some beef (no pun intended) when it said the Brooklyn Dodgers no longer exist and that Los Angeles has no claim on the name...