1920 Brooklyn Robins season

1920 Brooklyn Robins season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969‎
name = Brooklyn Robins
season = 1920
misc = 1920 National League Champions

current league = National League
y1 = 1890
Uniform
ballpark = Ebbets Field
y4 = 1913
city = Brooklyn, New York
y5 = 1883
owners = Charles Ebbets, Ed McKeever, Stephen McKeever
managers = Wilbert Robinson
television = none
radio = none|
The 1920 Brooklyn Robins won 16 of their final 18 games to pull away from a tight Pennant race and earn a trip to their 2nd World Series against the Cleveland Indians. They lost the series in seven games.

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1920 Roster

1920 World Series

On October 10, 1920, which was the fifth game of the World Series, Elmer Smith of the Dodgers hit the the first grand slam in World Series history. On the same day, Bill Wambsganss of the Indians had an unassisted triple play. He caught a liner, touched second base, and tagged the runner coming from first base. [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats8.shtml] During that same game, Indians pitcher Jim Bagby became the first pitcher to hit a home run in World Series history. [http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=World_Series]

Game 1

October 5, 1920 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York

Game 4

October 9, 1920 at Dunn Field in Cleveland, Ohio

Game 7

October 12, 1920 at Dunn Field in Cleveland, Ohio

1920 Transactions

*January: Sold Frank O'Rourke to the Washington Senators
*January 12: Sold Mack Wheat to the Philadelphia Phillies
*March: Purchased Bill Lamar from the Boston Red Sox
*May 22: Purchased Bill McCabe from the Chicago Cubs
*July: Sold Wally Hood to the Pittsburgh Pirates
*July 27: Sold Doug Baird to the New York Giants

External links

* [http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.asp?fileName=nl_1920_brooklyn.gif&Entryid=314 1920 Brooklyn Robins uniform]
* [http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/bdodgers/brooklyn.html Brooklyn Dodgers reference site]
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BRO/1920.shtml Baseball-Reference season page]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1920&t=BR7 Baseball Almanac season page]
* [http://pressbox.mlb.com/pressbox/downloads/y2007/la/history_records.pdf Dodgers Media Guide History]
* [http://www.acmewebpages.com/dodgers/ Acme Dodgers page]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/ Retrosheet]


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