Tag: Brooklyn Dodgers

Baseball History: Thomson’s ‘Shot Heard ’Round the World’

By Tony Pettinato on October 3, 2014

It is a cliché to say that a ballclub is a “team of destiny,” but if anyone deserves that title it would be manager Leo Durocher’s 1951 New York Giants baseball team. That’s the club that won the National League pennant in the last inning of the last playoff game on Bobby Thomson’s three-run... (Read More)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jackie Robinson & Rosa Parks Obituaries

By Tony Pettinato on October 23, 2013

During this October week in American history three pioneering activists died who had a big impact on American society: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women’s rights activist, died at 86 on 26 October 1902 Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson, American baseball player and civil rights activist, died at 53 on 24 October 1972 Rosa Louise McCauley... (Read More)