Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 1920 Brooklyn Robins, also known as the Dodgers, won 16 of their final 18 games to pull away from a tight pennant race and earn a trip to their second World Series against the Cleveland Indians. They lost the series in seven games.The team featured four Hall of Famers : manager Wilbert Robinson , pitchers Burleigh Grimes and Rube Marquard ...
Most baseball statistics sites and baseball historians generally now refer to the pennant-winning 1916 Brooklyn team as the Robins; on the other hand, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle used "Superbas" in its box scores that season.
The 1931 Brooklyn Robins finished in fourth place, ... Jack Quinn became the oldest person in baseball history to pitch on Opening Day.
Leon Cadore on a 1922 baseball card. On May 1, 1920, the Brooklyn Dodgers played the Boston Braves at Braves Field in Boston. [1] The Dodgers, or Robins, as they were then sometimes called after their manager, Wilbert Robinson, had won the National League title in 1916. [2]
The 1930 Brooklyn Robins were in first place from mid-May through mid-August but faded down the stretch and finished the season ... Baseball Almanac season page ...
The 1929 Brooklyn Robins finished the season in sixth place for the fifth straight season. Offseason ... Baseball Almanac season page; External links
The 1918 Brooklyn Robins finished the season in fifth place. Offseason. January 9, 1918: ... Baseball Almanac season page; Brooklyn Dodgers reference site;
The 1916 Brooklyn Robins won their first National League pennant in 16 years and advanced to the first World Series in franchise history, where they lost to Babe Ruth and the Boston Red Sox in five games.