Every Friday I’ve been releasing ‘A Brief History’ podcast about the Yankees. It started as a way to stay sane during quarantine, but evolved into something that I look forward to researching each week.
The most recent episode — The Subway Series, Part I — covers the great New York baseball rivalries starting at the turn of the 20th century, all the way up to the early 1950s including the first Yankees-Dodgers Subway Series in 1941.
Dem Bums from Brooklyn
The Dodgers earned the nickname “Dem Bums” for a reason. In the 1920s and ’30s they were a laughing stock.