To the editor: It was thought-about outre to be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan on Lengthy Island, the place I lived and the place most individuals adopted the Yankees or the Giants. I used to be 13 years outdated in 1955 when the Dodgers received their first and solely World Collection. It was towards the Yankees. (“Dodgers fans turn to lucky jerseys, sweaters, rosaries and prayer to help team win the title,” Nov. 1)
On the morning of Jan. 28, 1958, catcher Roy Campanella was in a foul automotive crash in a close-by Lengthy Island city. In homeroom that day, the nun at St. Mary’s Excessive Faculty had every of us go as much as the entrance of the room and inform the category an important merchandise on the information. I instructed them about what had occurred to Campanella. (Paralyzed, he lived to work for and encourage the Los Angeles Dodgers till his dying in 1993.)
Within the summers, within the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, I listened to Vin Scully announce video games on an early transistor radio. I’d awake within the morning with a useless battery. Value it.
I shocked myself by rooting for each groups within the 2024 World Collection. I envied the deportment of supervisor Dave Roberts, as a result of I used to be a nervous wreck: I had been a very long time with no dwelling workforce.
Elizabeth Bryant Caffrey, Placerville, Calif.
