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#1 The Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers were a fascinating mix of men, and they were not the most successful team in baseball. They were incredibly good, but they lost the World Series twice to the New York Yankees.
#2 The Brooklyn Dodgers were a baseball team that was owned by the Brooklyn Trust Company. It took a succession of winning teams to rescue the franchise...
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Get the Summary of Jane Leavy's Sandy Koufax in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Sandy Koufax" by Jane Leavy is a comprehensive biography that delves into the life and career of the legendary Dodgers pitcher. The book paints a portrait of Koufax's harmonious blend of natural talent and mastered craft, which allowed him to dominate baseball with his fastball and curveball. It explores his profound understanding of...
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#1 My first memory is of going to Ebbets Field in the summer of 1950 with my father. I was almost six, and the ballpark was a twenty-minute walk from our second-story apartment in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. I remember the colors vividly.
#2 I was a big sports fan and would spend hours listening to the games on the radio. I would spend hours collecting baseball...
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#1 I began to believe that the entire world was filled with Jewish comedians. Grandpa, along with Burns, took me to my first professional baseball game three years before the Dodgers arrived from Brooklyn.
#2 I had a very progressive father who was very sad on election night in 1956 when Adlai Stevenson lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was eternally optimistic,...
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#1 I was taken back to the first hot day in 1965 when I announced to my family that I had joined the Marine Corps. In 1965, the war in Viet Nam was growing bigger every day. The United States had a military draft and was pulling more and more guys into the Army. I didn't want to go to college, get married, or work. I just wanted to figure out what life had in store for...
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#1 I was six when my father gave me a bright-red scorebook that opened my heart to the game of baseball. I spent my afternoons sitting cross-legged before the squat Philco radio which stood as a permanent fixture on our porch in Rockville Centre, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York.
#2 My father, Michael Francis Aloysius Kearns, was a short man who appeared much...
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Get the Summary of Jon Gordon's The Power of a Positive Team in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great by Jon Gordon: Conversation Starters Positivity coach Jon Gordon talks to many of the most outstanding teams in history and reveals how good teamwork happens and how this is related to the team's success....
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