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Posted by MATHA531 on Sun Oct 11 10:27:30 2015, in response to Re: What If The Dodgers had not moved from Brooklyn?, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Oct 11 09:45:11 2015. The Giants had totally lost their fan base. Period. They were gone. They were all signed sealed and delivered to Minneapolis where they had their triple A farm club and such future Giants as Orlando Cepeda, Felipe Alou, Juan Marichal were playing there.There is a far better chance, if O'Malley wasn't such a pos the Dodgers would have ended up in Flushing. O'Malley was a lawyer who went to work for the Brooklyn Trust Company specializing in foreclosures (to show what a slime ball he was; he had no problem with hurting little people). In 1944, the Dodgers because of the war and all sorts of squabbling between Charlie Ebbets' heirs were in danger of bankruptcy and much of that paper was held by the Brooklyn Trust Company. To protect their interests, the bank wanted a member of their foreclosure department within an arm's length of the team's Board of Directors. At that point in time, the bank had two young lawyers working in their foreclosure department. The chairman of the bank, unfortunately for the Brooklyn fans, chose O'Malley. The other lawyer was a fellow named Bill Shea for whom Shea Stadium was eventually named. How different baseball history would have been. |
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