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Description: Brooklyn Collection Librarian June Koffi and others will give an illustrated talk on the history of the race track, the founding of the First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay that welcomed many of its African American workers, and the community that grew around them.
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Subject: Events, Sports , Black history
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 February 24
Description: A look at a 1954 pamphlet, "A Health and Safety Manual for the 1954 Baseball Season."
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Subject: Baseball, Ephemera Collection, Sports
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2009, 2009 March 23
Description: An author talk with Robert Murphy, author of After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball.
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Subject: Baseball, Events, Sports
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010 March 23, 2010
Description: An excerpt from the diary of Arthur Lonto.
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Subject: People, Baseball, Lonto, Arthur, Sports
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 April 7, 2010
Description: Musing on name possibilities for the soon-to-be Brooklyn basketball team, the Nets.
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Subject: Sports
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2010 May 20, 2010
Description: The history of horse racing in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Sports
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2010 July 1, 2010
Description: Famous bicyclist Charles M. Murphy.
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Subject: People, Little-Known Brooklyn Residents, Sports
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 August 20, 2010
Description: How an influx of Southern black workers to the racing industry in Brooklyn led to the creation of the First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay, thanks in large part to the efforts of Mother Maria J. Fisher.
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Subject: Sports , Race, Sheepshead Bay, Religion
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2010 October 26, 2010
Description: The history of women's bowling in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Women, Sports
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2010 November 16, 2010
Description: Football history in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Sports
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2010 December 5, 2010
Description: Photographs of Brooklyn Dodgers' home lives, including their children.
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Subject: Sports , Children, Baseball
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 February 17, 2011
Description: A rainy visit to Ebbets Field from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Subject: Weather, Politics, Sports , Baseball
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2011 February 25, 2011
Description: The death of Dodgers player Duke Snider prompts a history of his career.
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Subject: Sports , Baseball
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 March 1, 2011
Description: Guest post from Nora Almeida of Project CHART on a New York City college basketball gambling scandal in 1951.
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Subject: Sports , Crime
Creator: Nora Almeida
Date: 2011 June 9, 2011
Description: The story of Sidney Franklin, a young Jewish boy who became a bullfighter in Spain after training in Mexico.
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Subject: People, Sports
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 November 14, 2011
Description: Madame Ada Louise Anderson's feat of pedestrianism at the Mozart Garden in Brooklyn, as depicted in contemporary prints.
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Subject: Prints Collection, Sports
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 December 7, 2011
Description: Author talk with Andrew Mele, author of The Boys of Brooklyn: The Parade Grounds-Brooklyn's Field of Dreams, and The Brooklyn Dodgers Reader .
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Subject: Sports , Baseball, Events
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2012 April 24, 2012
Description: The Bushwicks baseball team.
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Subject: Baseball, Sports
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 June 14, 2012
Description: The history of chess in Brooklyn, including grandmaster Bobby Fischer.
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Subject: Sports
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2012 June 21, 2012
Description: Olympians from Brooklyn.
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Subject: Sports
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2012 July 26, 2012
Description: Early 1900s photographs of the Knickerbocker Field Club in Flatbush by Edwin Roberts, and some research into the photographer's identity.
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Subject: Sports , Flatbush, Photography
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2012 August 21, 2012
Description: A custom Google Map of Brooklyn's historic baseball sites.
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Subject: Baseball, Sports
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2013 March 15, 2013
Description: Dodgers player Leonard Koenecke and his untimely death.
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Subject: Sports , Baseball
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2013 July 30, 2013
Description: A look at the Brooklyn Ice Palace, an ice skating rink in Brooklyn from 1917-1955 where ice skaters trained and ice hockey teams practiced.
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Subject: Sports
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2013, 2013 October 25
Description: An author talk with with Lucia Trimbur, author of "Come Out Swinging: the changing world of boxing in Gleason's Gym," and an exhibition opening for "Sports in Brooklyn."
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Subject: Sports , Events, Exhibits
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2014 February 20, 2014
Description: A talk with Jake Appleman, author of "Brooklyn Bounce: The Highs and Lows of Nets Basketball's Historic First Season in the Borough."
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Subject: Events, Sports
Creator: Alla Roylance
Date: 2014 March 21, 2014
Description: Brooklyn-born baseball player Overton Tremper.
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Subject: Sports , People, Baseball
Creator: Sarah Scalet
Date: 2014 April 1, 2014
Description: A screening of Doin' It in The Park. Directed by Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau, this independent documentary explores the history, culture, and social influence of New York City’s summer basketball scene.
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Creator: Sarah Scalet
Date: 2014, 2014 April 22
Description: Design work and drawings by artist Ad Reinhardt in Brooklyn Dodgers publications donated by Al Todres.
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Subject: Sports , Baseball, Arts
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2014 May 15, 2014
Description: A talk with Andy McCue, author of Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion, and another with Andy Mele, author of Tearin’ Up the Pea Patch: the 1953 Dodgers.
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Subject: Events, Baseball, Sports
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2015 October 23, 2015
Description: Mrs. Betty Cohn of Brooklyn, who in 1951 became the first grandmother to swim the English Channel.
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Subject: Sports , Women, People
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2017, 2017 January 31
Description: The history of the Brooklyn Dodgers and selections from the recently processed Al Todres Brooklyn Dodgers Collection.
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Subject: Baseball, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2018 December 28, 2018
Description: In conjunction with the Brooklyn Collection exhibit "Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco," a look at the woman skaters of roller derby's midcentury heyday in Brooklyn, including Midge "Toughie" Brasuhn.
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Subject: Women, Sports , Exhibits
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2019 January 28, 2019
Description: A look at the history of Brooklyn's armory buildings and their varied uses.
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Subject: Architecture, Neighborhood history, War, Sports
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2020 February 12, 2020
Description: This is a shot of fans from Game 1 of the World Series pitting the New York Yankees against Brooklyn's own beloved Dodgers. 73,365 eager fans packed Yankee Stadium that Tuesday afternoon.
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Subject: Sports , Baseball, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 March 30, 2021
Description: To close out National Bicycle Month, here's a little a celebration of bicycling in Brooklyn, from 1897 to the present.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports , Women
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2021 May 24, 2021
Description: We’re thrilled that Gil Hodges has finally been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Baseball, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021 December 10, 2021
Description: For this Photo of the Week we have a captivating portrait of the Adelphi College senior basketball team from their 1910 yearbook.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports , School history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 April 18, 2022
Description: Abraham Lincoln never thought he would witness a kickflip. Never mind seeing one while cast in bronze and elevated nearly nineteen feet high over the southeast corner of Prospect Park lake.
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Subject: Sports , Prospect Park, Arts
Creator: Nathaniel Weisberg
Date: 2022 August 9, 2022
Description: The Williamsburg Bridge was completed in 1903, making it the second of three bridges to connect Brooklyn to our neighbors in Manhattan.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Bridges, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 August 29, 2022
Description: Happy Black History Month! Today we’re celebrating Dodgers pitcher Don “Big Newk” Newcombe.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Black history, Baseball, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 February 13, 2023
Description: To celebrate the return of baseball season, today's Photo of the Week is of Ralph Branca, the man who became famous for what would be called The Shot Heard Round the World.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports , Baseball
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 April 10, 2023
Description: The photo of the week depicts Eddie Tepper posing with a penny-farthing bicycle in 1886.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports , Children
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 May 22, 2023
Description: For this week's Photo of the Week we are rolling back the clock to 1980 and we're strapping on our skates for a cruise around the dance floor of the Empire Roller Disco on Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports , Photography
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 June 5, 2023
Description: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to Ebbets Field where we see a crowd of fans who were unable to get into the final game of the Yankees-Dodgers 1952 World Series.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Baseball, Sports
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 November 27, 2023
Description: Today's Photo of the Week looks at the tandem bicycle, an intimate vehicle that requires teamwork.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2024 February 13, 2024
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