Sep. 5—It's a holiday weekend, so I thought I'd take a holiday from all the serious stuff to write a bit about a baseball team I'm sorry I never got to see play — the Brooklyn Dodgers. I was born in Brooklyn, but too late to ever see them play at Ebbets Field before they moved to Los Angeles. Even though I'd missed the whole thing, once I got a sense of the storied team's history, I spent ...