To beloved Brooklyn Dodger Johnny Podres, born this date in 1932. Johnny Podres: Brooklyn’s Yankee Killer And to Hall of Famer Robin Roberts, born in 1926. Roberts, one of the last great complete game practitioners, died just this past May. He penned, My Life in Baseball,with the help of C. Paul Rogers III, in 2003.
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Podres, who pitched the deciding game in the 1955 Fall Classic to give the Brooklyn Dodgers their only World Championship, passed away this weekend at the age of 75. Richard Goldstein’s obituary in the Jan. 14 New Yorks Times, notes his place in the hearts that borough’s baseball fans. Look in any retrospective of the […]
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