This season's spectacular collapse of the New York Mets is much like that of the 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers, the team felled by Bobby Thompson's "shot heard around the world". Today's New York Times makes the comparison, including a passage about the reaction in Brooklyn Heights to the Dodgers' loss: The New York Times: When the […]
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European in the Pool
The New York Times covers the St. Francis College water polo team which now includes some strapping young players from Europe: New York Times: St. Francis Spices Up Water Polo Team: The trip to Kennedy Airport has become an August ritual for Carl Quigley. From the St. Francis campus in Brooklyn, where he has coached […]
Cyclones are Bridesmaids Again
The Brooklyn Cyclones have continued their unfortunate "often a bridesmaid" tradition, losing this year's championship series two games to none to the Auburn Doubledays (named for Abner Doubleday, a Civil War general controversially credited with having invented the game of baseball). In their maiden year, 2001, the Cyclones advanced to the New York-Penn League championship […]
Brigate Bocce Snubbed
In a shocking development, Brigate Bocce has been denied a place in the Fall Season of FloydNY's Bocce League. The team had been part of the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 seasons but elected to take the summer off and return to play this Fall. For some reason, capo Homer Fink was never notified […]
Cyclones Beat Yanks, Play for Championship
The Brooklyn Cyclones swept their across-the-Narrows rivals, the Staten Island Yankees in the semifinal round of the New York-Penn League championship series and, depending on the outcome of the other semifinal contest, will face either the Auburn Doubledays or the Oneonta Tigers for the championship. The opening game of the best of three series will […]
Cyclones Win Division, Enter Playoffs with Yanks
The Brooklyn Cyclones, the Borough's own professional baseball team, have won the McNamara Division of the New York-Penn League, and will play a best of three semifinal series with archrival Staten Island Yankees. The opening game will be this Sunday at Staten Island (the stadium is conveniently near the ferry terminal) beginning at 5 PM. […]
Boccelism Stopped at Summer Tourney
The Summer of Schadenfreude in the FloydNY Bocce League culminated Saturday with three four time champs Boccelism eliminated in the semi-finals by the Coffee Flats Terrors. On the other side of the bracket Fink's faux foes If You Want My Bocce were knocked out in the Final Four by Jimbo's Sweet Meat All Stars. That […]
Rod Sticks it to Boccelism
While Homer Fink's Brigate Bocce takes the summer off from the FloydNY Bocce League, we thought that this tidbit from the summer session was "newsworthy". Fink's faux foes If You Want My Bocce defeated long time (and thought to be unbeatable) champs Boccelism in this week's match. Clearly the power of Uri Geller must have […]
HBO to Present Documentary on Brooklyn Dodgers
Tomorrow evening at 8:00, HBO will show The Ghosts of Flatbush, a documentary about the Brooklyn Dodgers during the years 1947, the year Jackie Robinson was signed to the team, and 1957, when they moved to Los Angeles. Although focused on the team, the show also delves deeply into the history and social dynamics of […]
Watchtower to Soap Box Derby: NOT ON OUR HILL!
John Mejias the organizer of the annual Paping Soapbox Derby that has wowed spectators on the steep Columbia Heights hill for the last couple of years, tells BHB that it will not take place in Brooklyn Heights this year. The organizers of the race, which features homemade racers bearing names like "The Armoire", attempted to […]
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