While not always mentioned amongst baseball's all-time greats, few kids were disappointed when pulling a Roy Campanella baseball card from a pack during his brilliant career with the Brooklyn Dodgers. With Ebbets Field as a backdrop, "Campy" was a force both at the plate and behind it. Appearing on cards as a player from 1949-1957, he's among the stars of a … [Read more...] about 8 Great Roy Campanella Cards
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Letter From O’Malley To Concerned Brooklyn Fan Part of Lelands Auction
There is a website called the Brooklyn Board, where people who have moved away from New York City’s “borough of churches” reflect upon their childhood memories. About a dozen years ago, if a poster to the board wanted to incite an argument, all he or she had to do was write something like, “Say, that Walter O’Malley wasn’t a bad guy after all, and he had no choice but to … [Read more...] about Letter From O’Malley To Concerned Brooklyn Fan Part of Lelands Auction
Jackie Robinson’s Original Contracts To Be Auctioned Feb. 27
After a delay of a few months, Jackie Robinson’s original professional baseball contracts with the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Montreal Royals are headed to the auction block. Robinson broke the modern-era color line in major-league baseball when he signed with the Dodgers on April 11, 1947. Nearly two years earlier, Robinson signed a deal with the Dodgers’ top minor-league … [Read more...] about Jackie Robinson’s Original Contracts To Be Auctioned Feb. 27
Jackie Robinson’s Original Contracts Up for Sale
The two contracts that resulted in the integration of baseball following World War II are going on the auction block. The pact Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and his contract with the Montreal Royals from 1945 will be offered through Goldin Auctions on November 16, although it’s possible they could be sold privately before a planned auction at the … [Read more...] about Jackie Robinson’s Original Contracts Up for Sale
Consignment Of The Week: 1913 Marble Slab From Ebbets Field Rotunda
Sixty years ago, the Dodgers played their final season in Brooklyn before packing up and moving west to Los Angeles for the 1958 season. Their home from April 9, 1913, to September 24, 1957, was Ebbets Field, a bandbox of a stadium that was built on a garbage dump in a Brooklyn neighborhood called Pigtown. After the Dodgers left, the park languished for a few years, but on … [Read more...] about Consignment Of The Week: 1913 Marble Slab From Ebbets Field Rotunda