Tommy Brown arrived in Brooklyn as a 16-year-old curiosity, sharing headlines with veterans twice his age. One year later, during one of the Dodgers’ uglier losses, he carved out a record baseball still hasn’t erased.

🕵️ Inside The Original Newspaper Coverage you’ll learn:

  • The embarrassing stat line behind Brooklyn’s blowout loss

  • The veteran ex-star unexpectedly paired with Brown in photos

  • Also on the page: The bizarre reason an Ohio league game never started

🕵️ Replay Today: May 9, 1976

Travel back 50 years ago to the day, and experience baseball as fans saw it that day with one original newspaper page featuring:

  • a 16-inning marathon with sandlot league umpires

  • the A’s had trouble hanging on to the ball against the White Sox

  • a grand finish for the Orioles against the Tigers

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