brooklyndodgermemories

This is a fine book, which I am enjoying re-reading at the present time. I will NOT stop reading at page 241.

I always thought that particular book should have been done in 2 volumes. The Brooklyn Years, The LA years.But any way you look at it, it is an excellent book. If I were teaching a class on Brooklyn Dodger history, that would be my text book. Bums is very colorful and helps understand the Brooklyn mystique, but 120 years is about as factual and concise as you can get.

This is my Dodgers reference book as well. I however only have read half of it, and have no intentions of reading the rest!

I have felt the same way amazing, but the first few years in LA is part of the Brooklyn history, in a convoluted way.

I just hate the fact that I was cheated out of rooting for this team by greed. Don't get me wrong I love the Mets, and they have given me some good memories, but I feel cheated out of 50+ years of baseball history to look back on. I'm a Giants, Rangers, Fighting Irish, and Celtics fan so I know a thing or two about traditions. I hate that my NL MLB team loyalty was cheated of that. Granted my loss isn't as bad as yours, Petes, Deb, and others who actually watched the club, and were devestated when they left, but at least you have those memories, I have none. Well thats my 2 cents for now.

Notre Dame and the Celtics--loved 'em all my life! Paul Hornung and Bill Russell. I have Bill Russell's warm-up jacket. It is green and it is huge. I wear it around playoff time.

Those of you who never got to see Ebbets Field or the Brooklyn Dodgers were hurt more then those of us who had the chance in my opinion. And it was all about greed and ego. Giants, and Rangers I can see, so am I, but Boston Celtics, oh my? I can't believe what I just read.

When the NBA and I were young, I loved watching the games on Saturday afternoons. The Celtics were always the best. Their uniforms (especially the road ones--green with those black Chuck Taylor All-Stars) were traditionally excellent. Their coach lit "victory" cigars in the 4th quarter. Their home court had a parquay floor. They were better than the Yankees. If my baseball teams couldn't win consistently, at least my basketball team would!! I needed success during the baseball off-season.

But the Knicks won 15 games a year, played some of their home games in a regiment armory and their coach just sat their and watched.

The 69th Regiment Street Armory. Carl Braun and Kenny Sears....................

Being part Irish is the main reason in liking the Celtics and Notre Dame. I grew up a huge Rangers, and Mets fan in my formative years, when I hit junior high I began to be a rabid Giants fan. When I hit High School and people would ask what college, and NBA teams I liked I picked the Irish ( based on name, and being Catholic ) and Celtics ( again based on name, and Larry Bird was the man! ). Notre Dame is kinda an unofficial NY team anyway, and there are lots of Celtics fans out in eastern Suffolk, due to the fact that you could listen to games from Boston. I just never got into the Knicks and Nets, they seemed to be very mismanaged for years, and the Celtics tradition speaks for itself. I guess one non-NY team is OK.

Notre Dame & New York = The Subway Alumni

Exactly, I've heard it called Curbside Alumni too!

I meet ND fans wherever I go. My daughter's husband, his two brothers, and his father & grandfather (still alive) are ND graduates. I suppose their 3 sons (my grandkids) will attend ND too. I hope I live long enough to see it.

You will, you're still a kid, so you still have your whole adult life to live!