![]() This recent, scalding streak over 50 games - during which the Dodgers went 42-8, the first such run in MLB since the 1942 Cardinals - fills New Yorkers with conflicting feelings. Long before the Yankees' famed "Core Four" led the Bronx Bombers to four World Series titles in five years, the Dodgers enjoyed a transcendent confluence of timing and talent from 1947 through 1957.įast forward to now. ![]() 42, the Dodgers were just a badass ballclub, lead by baseball stalwarts Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snyder, Gil Hodges, and Roy Campanella. Or at least we fired the first shot in the Civil Rights movement, when Brooklyn trotted out the player George Will calls the most influential black man of the 20th Century (along with Martin Luther King).Įven those of us who only know the Chavez Ravine shade of Dodger Blue have heard the ancient tales, passed like a baton down the generations. We were not only the team, but the town that rewrote America's racial paradigm.
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