Brooklyn Dodgers News
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They played in a ramshackle ballpark on the prairie during the most trying economic period of modern times. The stands were separated from the field by chicken wire, the locker room had no showers, fans parked their cars in the outfield. This was baseball in Bismarck, North Dakota, in the 1930s.
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The action film “Pain & Gain” opened as the top film at theaters in the U.S. and Canada, taking in $20.2 million for Paramount Pictures as studios looked ahead to the start of the summer movie season.
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“Oblivion,” the Tom Cruise science-fiction tale, opened as the top weekend movie at theaters in the U.S. and Canada, taking in $38.2 million for distributor Universal Pictures.
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The Jackie Robinson biography “42” opened as the top weekend film at theaters in the U.S. and Canada, taking in $27.5 million for Legendary Pictures and distributor Time Warner Inc.
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The Jackie Robinson biography “42” opened as the top weekend film at theaters in the U.S. and Canada, taking in $27 million for Legendary Pictures and distributor Time Warner Inc.
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The Jackie Robinson biography “42” opened as the top weekend film at theaters in the U.S. and Canada, taking in $27 million for Legendary Pictures and distributor Time Warner Inc.
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In “The Angels’ Share” Robbie, a Glasgow hooligan doing community service in lieu of jail time, wants to give his new son a better childhood than he had. But he’s finding it hard to overcome the pull of gang violence.
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Hank Greenberg was the son of Romanian Jews who spoke Yiddish at home. As a Detroit Tiger, he was dropped into a state whose industry was controlled by one anti-Semite (Henry Ford) and whose airwaves were poisoned by another (Father Charles Coughlin).
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Gil Hodges, who helped the Dodgers to seven National League pennants and managed the New York Mets to their first World Series title in 1969, gets another chance to reach the baseball Hall of Fame today.
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Jack Curran, the Archbishop Molloy High School basketball and baseball coach for 55 years whose lineups included National Basketball Association players Kenny Smith and Kenny Anderson, has died. He was 82.
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