Hello, Fellow Dodgers Fans

[KG Erwin]

I am very happy to be in this distinguished group. Now, to be honest, I am a Pirates fan (don't throw anything at me!), but after studying the illustrious history of the REAL Dodgers, I've become a fan.

I'm 50 years old, married with one child, and work for the WV State Tax Dept. I used to play in various bands (I'm a bassplayer), but retired from that several years ago.

I own a copy of Peter Golenbock's wonderful book, "Bums", and last year sat enthralled as I watched "The Ghosts of Flatbush" several times.

I hope you folks will be kind to me, as I'm admittedly a relative newbie to Dodger lore.

However, my favorite players are Pete Reiser, Ralph Branca, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and of course, our man Jackie.

[DODGER DEB]

I am very happy to be in this distinguished group. Now, to be honest, I am a Pirates fan (don't throw anything at me!), but after studying the illustrious history of the REAL Dodgers, I've become a fan.

I'm 50 years old, married with one child, and work for the WV State Tax Dept. I used to play in various bands (I'm a bassplayer), but retired from that several years ago.

I own a copy of Peter Golenbock's wonderful book, "Bums", and last year sat enthralled as I watched "The Ghosts of Flatbush" several times.

I hope you folks will be kind to me, as I'm admittedly a relative newbie to Dodger lore.

However, my favorite players are Pete Reiser, Ralph Branca, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and of course, our man Jackie.

As the Moderator of OUR wonderful group, let me the first to welcome you to OUR little corner of BBF, KG Erwin.

You certainly have come to the right place if you want to learn about OUR BROOKLYN DODGERS, OUR players, OUR history, and why , after more than 50 years there are still many of US, who were there, still consider OUR DODGERS, OUR team. Along the way, WE have enticed many to become BROOKLYN DODGER FANS, and have also added many that simply wanted to learn more about OUR Dodgers, as you do.

WE will be happy to answer any questions you have, and share any memories WE have of watching OUR DODGERS play at OUR Ebbets Field.

So again, welcome, and do join in on any of the conversations.

c.

[penncentralpete]

I am very happy to be in this distinguished group. Now, to be honest, I am a Pirates fan (don't throw anything at me!), but after studying the illustrious history of the REAL Dodgers, I've become a fan.

I'm 50 years old, married with one child, and work for the WV State Tax Dept. I used to play in various bands (I'm a bassplayer), but retired from that several years ago.

I own a copy of Peter Golenbock's wonderful book, "Bums", and last year sat enthralled as I watched "The Ghosts of Flatbush" several times.

I hope you folks will be kind to me, as I'm admittedly a relative newbie to Dodger lore.

However, my favorite players are Pete Reiser, Ralph Branca, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and of course, our man Jackie.

Welcome. These are your stated favorites in order:

[Bklyn Boy since 1936]

WELCOME KG

Chances are, if you hang around here long enough, ask enough questions and read enough past threads you will be almost as knowledgeable about OUR BROOKLYN DODGERS as anyone out there ... except, of course, for those of us who still have the sights, sounds and smells of Ebbets Field lingering in our systems.

So again, welcome to our group.

[donzblock]

I am very happy to be in this distinguished group. Now, to be honest, I am a Pirates fan (don't throw anything at me!), but after studying the illustrious history of the REAL Dodgers, I've become a fan...I hope you folks will be kind to me, as I'm admittedly a relative newbie to Dodger lore.

Of course we will be kind to you. We will always be grateful to the Pirates for giving to us Preacher Roe and Billy Cox. And we are grateful to you for having such excellent taste in baseball teams.

[dodger dynamo]

kg, glad you've decided to join the group. no more standing outside by the gas station, plenty of room in the grand stand or the bleechers, hey you're more than welcome. just ask a way and if you got some info you want to share, talk about, validate, I'm sure we'll all be glad to discuss it. If you're here to find out the real true story, of the brooklyn dodgers you've come to the right place. battlin bake, the dodger dynamo

[D6+]

KG Erwin, welcome to the Dodgers Forum.

[The Real McCoy]

Of course we will be kind to you. We will always be grateful to the Pirates for giving to us Preacher Roe and Billy Cox. And we are grateful to you for having such excellent taste in baseball teams.

and of course let's not forget that Pittsburgh was Branch Rickey's next stop after Brooklyn. and it was as GM of the Bucs that "the Mahatma" issued his famous assessment of his team: "we're in the eighth year of a five year rebuilding program." he had left all his "residue of design" in Brooklyn for which unspeakables took credit.

[Dodgerfan1]

Of course we will be kind to you. We will always be grateful to the Pirates for giving to us Preacher Roe and Billy Cox. And we are grateful to you for having such excellent taste in baseball teams.

But don't think we've forgotten how your Pirates stole Roberto Clemente from Brooklyn!! Grrr.....

[Pete Rose Rounding Third]

I'm glad this thread is here. I didn't think I should start a new one.

I am a casual baseball fan. It's my second favorite sport after basketball. I don't have a favorite team, but I tend to root for the underdog. This lingering sentiment of mine starts to rear its head when I pore over baseball history and read about Brooklyn coming up short, time and again, to the damn Yankees. (Yes, I'm a confirmed Yankee hater) I know it's useless, but I find myself rooting for the Dodgers while I read the details.

It's true that I don't have a favorite baseball team. I do have a lifelong favorite basketball team: the San Antonio Spurs. And just thinking about how good things have been for my team lately reminded me how good I have had it as a fan - I only had to wait seventeen years for a championship and just four more for a second one. Meanwhile, other fanbases waited for decades upon decades for championships: Red Sox, 86 years; White Sox, 88 years; Cubs, 100 years and counting. But you guys waited 61 years after so many close calls and for all that suffering, your team was whisked away and never replaced. Just one championship and a void that may never be replaced.

And your situation was special. When I was a kid, there was already a huge gap in status between the players and most of the fans who paid their salaries. During the Dodgers' heyday, that wasn't the case. That had to be amazing to root for a group of players that you felt close to, felt connected to. Modern fans don't feel that - it's just not possible in today's world.

I always think of myself as a lucky fan, but to be honest, I would love to be young in 1950's Brooklyn. I would like to know what that sort of fandom feels like. This is why I've spent a lot of time on this forum reading old threads. The passion you all have is not only real, it's nearly tangible. I read your comments and I always find them compelling. I don't always agree with those comments, and I even find myself getting irritated with them sometimes, but I admire the fierce loyalty you all have. I've always had a general idea in my head of what a "true" sports fan is like; you Dodger fans are the type of fans I've long imagined. O'Malley should have had the decency to change the team name with the move, and you guys deserve the very next expansion franchise MLB approves. It won't make things right, but that's the least that baseball can do for you.

The very next baseball cap I buy will have a big white "B" above the bill.

[stejay]

I love to see a team so loved, 50 years after they moved. I am only 25 years old, and watching footage of the Dodgers, and the stories I have heard, I am infactuated by the Dodgers. It is a Yankees fan posting this too.

[stejay]

My favorite Dodger players-
1. Pee Wee Reese
2. Sandy Koufax
3. Jackie Robinson
4. Duke Snider
5. Roy Campanella-

[Spirit of '55]

Friends:

Are we listing favorites? My candidates, then:

1. Captain Pee Wee

2. Jackie

3. The Duke of Flatbush

4. Oisk

5. Campy

and an Honorable Mention for Cal Abrams. He lived near me in Florida, and when he died he was buried in his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform.

[SNAP]

Welcome KG...........I'm a proud former Brooklynite who always wears his Dodger(B) hat. My 15 yr. old girl asked me what the B stood for and I said: "Honey, sit down & I'll explain it all to you.........Brooklyn, you're Grandpa(gone since '04).........everything." When I finished she was in tears.