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Re: Tuscarora Almanac - October 8, 1974 - The Book of First Runs |
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Posted by MATHA531 on Sat Oct 10 17:31:10 2015, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac - October 8, 1974 - The Book of First Runs, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Oct 9 09:15:36 2015. While because of money, O'Malley was able to get history re-written, Moses was allowed to hang out to dry by the Manhattan centric city administration which quite frankly for a variety of reasons were not willing to put up the money to buy out the businesses blocking O'Malley from building his ballpark on top of the LIRR terminal. But then again the little fact that the laws of NY State on eminent domain probably would have meant years of litigation while O'Malley had the totally unethical offer from Los Angeles to screw the inhabitants of Chavez Ravine and hand O'Malley the rights to any oil found there (none has been found). If you don't believe that, look at how long it took to clear the way for the construction of Barclay Center (more than 5 years) despite the fact that Bruce Ratner included a housing component in the original plans, which he probably never intended to build to get around these very same eminent domain laws and also we had a mayor who despite his manhattan centric outlook on things, was a sports fan.There are other villains in this piece. For example, the St. Louis Browns had asked the American League to schedule a meeting to allow them to move to Los Angeles and the meeting was scheduled. There are no indications their request would have been granted but the meeting was never held. Why not? It was scheduled for 08 December 1941. So add Admiral Yamamoto to the list of villains (Ford Frick, Warren Giles, Walter O'Malley) who are responsible for the fact that Brooklyn is one of only two cities major league baseball abandoned and never restored major league baseball. The other is Montreal where the situation will be rectified in the near future. |
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