Touring the minors: Brooklyn

MCU Park Steve Sypa “Home To Everyone From Everywhere,” Brooklyn has roughly 2.6 million residents, which would make it third-most populous city in the United States, after Los Angeles and Chicago, if it were its own city. While Brooklyn was indeed its own, it merged with the City of New York in 1898 to become one of New York’s five boroughs. The second-largest borough, with an area of 91 square miles, Brooklyn is a diverse crosshatch of cultures, with Italians, Irish, Jews, Russians, African-Americans, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, West Indians, and others all having deep roots in the community.

Organized baseball has been present in Brooklyn since the sport first organized,…