THIS DAY IN EARLY BROOKLYN, LOS ANGELES DODGERS BASEBALL HISTORY

Posted by Ron on Jan 1, 2012 | 3 comments

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Welcome to a new feature, This Day in Early Dodgers History.  Each day this site will feature an event or development in the early history of Brooklyn Dodgers baseball that happened on that date. Here’s today’s entry:

     Jan. 1, 1888:  The New York Clipper comments on free-spending Brooklyn club owners Charles Byrne, Gus Abell and Joe Doyle after a poor 1887 season:  “Their team, lacking energy and earnestness in their work, have finished a bad sixth in the race and this result roused up the club trio to extra exertions in getting together a winning team for 1888.”