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Don Larsen (Photo by Vincent Laforet/Getty Images)

By The Numbers: Breaking Down The Subway Series From A Historical Perspective

Before interleague play, the term “Subway Series” was pretty much reserved for the World Series. But no city has had the number of Subway Series that The Big Apple has.

2013/05/29

Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark with Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz on April 18, 2013 (credit: Mike Pont/Getty Images)

Nets CEO Brett Yormark Talks Exciting Times In Brooklyn

“Having a seventh game here in Brooklyn on our court is something that, obviously, we were hoping for. Our players delivered. And I think the fans are going to deliver in a big time way tomorrow night,” Yormark told WCBS 880′s Steve Scott.

2013/05/03

Exterior view of the Barclays Center (credit: Brad Kallet/CBSNewYork.com)

Ebbets Field Flagpole Makes Its Way To Barclays Center

The flagpole had been donated to a local VFW post after the stadium was demolished in 1960 and remained at that site until Nets part-owner Bruce Ratner, the Barclays Center developer, obtained it in 2007 with the plan of bringing it here.

2012/12/12

Coutinho: Remembering Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on this day 65 years ago.

WFAN–2012/04/15

Duke Snider plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers - File / Photo: AP

By The Numbers: Forgotten Royalty: The Duke Of Flatbush

With the World Series this month, I thought it might be well to compare three icons… to give Duke his due, so to speak

WFAN–2011/10/04

In this Sept. 21 1954, file photo, some of the players in the race for the National League baseball batting title that season pose in New York. From left are New York Giants' Willie Mays, Brooklyn Dodgers' Duke Snider, and Giants' Don Mueller, right. Snider, 84, died early Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, of what the family called natural causes at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, Calif. Snider was part of the charmed "Boys of Summer" with the Dodgers in the late 1940s and 1950s. He helped lead Brooklyn to its only World Series championship in 1955. (AP Photo/File)

Players, Teammates Remember Brooklyn Legend Duke Snider

Brooklyn Dodgers legend Duke Snider died Sunday. He was 84. “Duke was a fine man, a terrific hitter and a great friend, even though he was a Dodger,” Giants Hall of Famer Willie Mays said.

WFAN–2011/02/28

Duke Snider Dead At Age 84

Duke Snider, the Hall of Fame center fielder for the charmed “Boys of Summer” who helped the Dodgers bring their elusive and only World Series crown to Brooklyn, died early Sunday, he was 84.

WFAN–2011/02/27

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