When the subject of baseball in Brooklyn comes up, the discussion centers around Ebbets Field, the Flatbush venue most famously home to The Boys of Summer. Those legendary 1940s and '50s teams that featured such historic and beloved players as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella and Gil Hodges. Ebbets Field hosted its last major league game in 1957 and was torn down during the winter of 1960. But decades earlier, just before World War One, the Dodgers were based in the Park Slope area and played at Washington Park. Once they moved out, the land was occupied by another stadium, which housed a different franchise. The upstart Federal League, which played in the 1914 and '15 seasons, had a Brooklyn team called the TipTops. Owned by a local baking magnate Robert Ward, whose company produced TipTop bread, the club took over the abandoned lot along 3rd Street and built a new brick and steel venue. The only no-hitter in the Federal League's two-year r
David Ortiz and Jarrod Saltalamacchia delivered the biggest hits as the Red Sox, down 5-0 after seven innings, rallied to beat the Tigers 6-5 last night and even the American League Championship Series. With Max Scherzer taking a no-hitter into the 6th, Detroit looked to be in great position. Scherzer left after seven with a 5-1, before Jim Leyland's bullpen faltered. Big Papi stunned Detroit and electrified Fenway when he crushed Joaquin Benoit's first pitch for game-tieing grand slam in the 8th inning. Saltalamacchia (seen here in Spring Training), capped the comeback with a walk-off single in the bottom off the 9th, bringing home Jonny Gomes.
It was a day of dramatic finishes in Boston. Just hours earlier and 30 miles away in Foxboro, Tom Brady's 17-yard touchdown pass to Kenbrell Thompkins brought the Patriots from behind for a 30-27 win over the previously undefeated New Orleans Saints.
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