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The Dodgers are playing the Yankees in the World Series, and this brings back wonderful memories.
I was born in the Bronx, N.Y., where the Yankees were, and lived in upper Manhattan near where the Giants were. When I moved to Long Island, my Uncle Izzy from Brooklyn would always turn on Vin Scully covering the Brooklyn Dodgers games when he visited our house in Roslyn. Sandy Koufax was the Dodgers’ star pitcher and he was Jewish, so I became a Dodger fan.
The Dodgers hadn’t won a World Series yet, but they did in 1955 when I was 9 years old, beating the Yankees in seven games. Two years later,...
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