Yankee Stadium opens in 1923
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.comSignature Game April 18, 1923 -- Costing $2.5 million, the new ballpark in the Bronx opened to an overflow crowd announced as 74,200. The New York Ti...
Page | ConversationBerra blasts two home runs in '56 World Series, Game 7.
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com...World Series is best remembered for Don Larsen's perfect performance in Game 5. But when the Dodgers won the next day, 1-0 in 10 innings, it all came down to today's seventh...
Page | ConversationBerra was great, which was as close to good as possible
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com"I should have called Yogi, no question about it, if we were going to make a [managerial] change [in 1985]. So what I did is later try to go back and ...
Page | ConversationCampy had a lot of little boy in him
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com...Classic's SportsCentury series. Roy Campanella became the last important piece of the Boys of Summer Brooklyn Dodgers when he went behind the plate in 1948. He also became the melancholy symbol of those teams...
Page | ConversationLargest MLB crowd honored Campanella
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com...exhibition game in Los Angeles, where Campanella never even suited up for the California version of the Dodgers. A little more than 15 months after he was paralyzed in a car accident, the Dodgers gave...
Page | ConversationGreenberg was Tiger at the plate
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.comSignature Game Sept. 30, 1945 - Hank Greenberg had been back with Detroit only three months after four years in the military. Going into today's fina...
Page | ConversationInsightful manager known most for failure
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com...for journeyman infielders. In all or part of nine seasons, he played for six major league teams - Dodgers, Pirates, Cubs, Braves, Cardinals and Red Sox. He never appeared in more than 72 games any season...
Page | ConversationMazeroski was a defensive gem at second base
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com"After it was over, it was pretty much like any other game. I just thought it was another home run to win a ballgame and would never last 40 years," s...
Page | ConversationFlood fought player reserve clause
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com...Flood had eight consecutive hits, including four against Sandy Koufax, in a doubleheader against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Aug. 16, 1964. From 1965-69, Flood and Tim McCarver were co-captains of the Cardinals...
Page | ConversationLarsen had one perfect day
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com...Classic's SportsCentury series. In the fifth game of the 1956 World Series, after retiring the Brooklyn Dodgers in order for the seventh consecutive inning, Don Larsen was smoking a cigarette in the dugout when...
Page | ConversationLarsen perfect in Game 5 of '56 Series
Nick Acocella, 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 failing to hold a 6-0 lead in Game 2, the no...
Page | ConversationReggie saved his best for October
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com...Game 6 in 1977, when he belted three homers on three consecutive pitches to him off three Dodgers pitchers as the Yankees won the clinching game. Babe Ruth is the only other person to hit...
Page | ConversationReg-gie, Reg-gie, Reg-gie
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com...solidified his place in baseball lore by hitting three home runs on the first pitch from three Dodger pitchers. His feat powered the Yankees to an 8-4 victory in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium...
Page | ConversationAnderson won titles in both leagues
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com...the English language and given to elaborate chess games with opposing pilots, Anderson was conspicuous for his Dodger-trained belief that opening day rosters should be changed as little as possible. He also believed that...
Page | ConversationBaseball's greatest catcher
Nick Acocella, Special to ESPN.com"I remember I said to Red Smith, 'I've seen Campy and Berra, this fellow's better than that. And Red said to me, 'I've seen Dickey and Mickey Cochrane...
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