A lifetime of breaking barriers
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.comBaseball's color barrier wasn't the only hurdle Jackie Robinson faced in his life.
Story | Conversation | February 02, 2004Rifleman is first to shatter an NBA backboard
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...points and shoot 25.2 percent from the field. He will play one game for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 and 66 for the Chicago Cubs in 1951 - hitting .238 - before going into show business...
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Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...the 11th ballot, they select a man who grew up in Jersey City rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers and dreaming of playing for the Boston Celtics. He's Paul Tagliabue, a 48-year-old Washington...
Page | ConversationMr. October homers on three straight pitches
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...place in baseball lore. The Yankees' slugger hits three home runs on the first pitch from three Dodger pitchers to power the Yankees to an 8-4 victory in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium and...
Page | ConversationGibson's dramatic homer has Hollywood ending
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...Gibson pulls a Roy Hobbs. For most of Game 1 of the World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers' injured star is in the trainer's room, "sitting in a tub of ice like a broken...
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Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...Reggie Jackson. Ninth inning, game on the line. Second game of the World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers cling to a 4-3 lead when Welch, a 21-year-old rookie right-hander, enters with...
Page | ConversationLarsen's perfect game reason to party
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...the only perfect game (and only no-hitter as well) in Series history in beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0. Three days after blowing a 6-0 lead in Game 2, the no-windup pitcher...
Page | ConversationGionfriddo catch helps Dodgers jolt Joe, Yanks
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...of the World Series. Having scored four runs in the sixth to take an 8-5 lead, Dodgers manager Burt Shotton inserts Gionfriddo for defense in the bottom of the inning at Yankee Stadium. With...
Page | ConversationThree strikes and Yanks are safe, rally to win
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...a one-run lead going into the ninth inning of Game 4 of the World Series, the Dodgers get three outs - and still lose the game. The Yankees' Tommy Henrich swings and misses at Hugh...
Page | ConversationWait is over - Dodgers finally beat Yanks in Series
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.comOct. 4, 1955 Finally, it's next year for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Losers of their previous seven World Series, the Bums are celebrating in the penthouse after winning their...
Page | ConversationDodgers, Gibson highlight MLB's K-Day
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.comOct. 2, 1953/1963/1968 Just call it K Day ... 1953: Brooklyn Dodgers right-hander Carl Erskine, who lasted just one inning in the World Series opener two days ago...
Page | ConversationDizzy gets 30th win on day Cards win pennant
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...learn they won the National League pennant as the Giants had lost, 8-5, to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Dean gets out of a bases-loaded, nobody-out situation to post his major-league leading seventh...
Page | ConversationHershiser breaks Drysdale's scoreless inning streak
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.com...be more appropriate than the first letter in Orel Hershiser's first name? For the Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander has been racking up nothing but 0s for almost a month. Since allowing the Montreal...
Page | ConversationDodgers left in a daze by Dizzy and Daffy Dean
Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.comSept. 21, 1934 The day after Dizzy Dean delivered the dizzy prediction that the Dodgers "will be pitching against one-hit Dean and no-hit Dean" in today's doubleheader at Ebbets...
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Larry Schwartz, Special to ESPN.comSept. 16, 1988 The game against the Dodgers is delayed 2 hours, 27 minutes at the start because of rain, but the Reds' Tom Browning...
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