O’Malley’s baseball seed flourishing in auld sod
The last time two overseas baseball teams took each other on in Dublin, Croke Park was the venue for a 1946 exhibition game between the Dodgers and the Yankees.
Ok, so admittedly the real boys of summer from Brooklyn and the Bronx never managed to reach the sacred turf. In fact it was American servicemen on their way home from the war who were representing the less renowned Burtonwood Dodgers and the Mildenhall Yankees in what must have been a poignant if a little underwhelming occasion.