Tag Archives: Brooklyn Dodgers
Carl Furillo – The Reading Rifle
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 1st August 2026Carl Anthony Furillo was one of the indispensable members of the great Brooklyn Dodgers teams remembered as the “Boys of Summer.” A powerful, accurate-throwing right fielder and a remarkably dependable hitter, he spent his entire 15-year major-league career with the Dodgers, accompanying them from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. He was less celebrated than Jackie Robinson,…
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The Brooklyn Dodgers – A Personal Reminiscence
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 25th July 2015Below is a PowerPoint Presentation from a talk I gave today to the Lubbock Roundtable. It deals with the random nature of baseball – much more so than any other sport. It than discusses the Brooklyn Dodgers of the years 1947-56, the Jackie Robinson Years. It presents the key Dodger players of the time with…
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Duke Snider – RIP
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 27th February 2011Duke Snider, one of my boyhood heroes died today; he was 84. I’ve already written about him and the rest of the Brooklyn Dodgers – here. One of the great players on a great team. He was a power hitter who fielded with grace. He played on a team that was from another world. Professional…
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Baseball Hall of Fame Permanently Contaminated
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th August 2008Walter O’Malley was recently inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame. If you grew up in Brooklyn when the Brooklyn Dodgers were still there as I did there is no worse villain than Walter O’Malley. O’Malley’s election to baseball’s Hall of Fame is as apposite as the Pope bestowing sainthood on Vladimir Putin. If you ask…
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