What baseball team used to play in Brooklyn?

Brooklyn has had many baseball teams since the sport took hold in the mid 1800s, but let's just limit the discussion to professional baseball, players being paid and games played within a more or less permanent league. read more

In case you're just on a stopover on your intergalactic tour of the universe and not conversant with our sports teams, it's the Dodgers, of course. They moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 season and the borough mourned for decades. read more

Most baseball statistics sites and baseball historians generally now refer to the pennant-winning 1916 Brooklyn team as the Robins. A 1918 New York Times article used the nickname Robins in its title "Buccaneers Take Last From Robins", but the subtitle of the article reads "Subdue The Superbas By 11 To 4, Making Series An Even Break". read more

After a 43-year hiatus, baseball returned to the borough in the form of the Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league team that began playing in Coney Island in 2001. The Cyclones are a short season Class A New York–Penn League affiliate of the New York Mets professional team. read more