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Posted by Mitch45 on Sun Oct 11 09:45:11 2015, in response to What If The Dodgers had not moved from Brooklyn?, posted by Wallyhorse on Fri Oct 9 05:41:13 2015. If the Dodgers had stayed in Brooklyn, the Giants might not have moved to SF, since Walter O'Malley convinced Horace Stoneham, the Giants owner, to move to California with the Dodgers to show the public that California Major League Baseball's time had come. Would we still have three MLB franchises in NYC today under that scenario? Who knows.One thing is for sure. If the Dodgers hadn't moved, there would be no Mets franchise and I, a Bronx native, would have most likely ended up a Yankees fan. I moved from the Bronx to Queens in January of 1970, when NYC was in love with the Miracle Mets and the Yankees were in the dark CBS days. My uncle, who lived in Jackson Heights, took me to my first Mets game in 1972, when I was 7. After learning how close Shea was to my house and seeing guys like Seaver, Staub and Mays, I was hooked to the orange and Blue forever. If the Dodgers had stayed in Brooklyn, I wouldn't have felt the same allegiance to them, and would have followed my older cousins into the Yankees abyss. |
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