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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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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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