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Posted by #4 Sea Beach Fred on Sun Oct 11 17:01:31 2015, in response to Re: What If The Dodgers had not moved from Brooklyn?, posted by MATHA531 on Sun Oct 11 10:27:30 2015. Wow!!!! We have people on this board who really know their baseball stuff. Good work M531!!!!! You're right on target. And your take on the Giants was spot on. In the latter part of the 1956 season, the next to last one for the Giants in Manhattan, a survey was taken of the support the Giants had in their home borough and it was a real eye opener. Did you know that Southern Manhattan, especially along the lower East side, was mainly Dodger country? And that Harlem where the Giants played was also heavily made up of Brooklyn fans? The legacy of the Dodgers breaking the color line stayed strong there and even Willie Mays couldn't reverse the numbers. Outside of Harlem in the white sections it was mostly Yankee fans. The only place there might still have been a Giants majority was some neighborhoods on the upper West Side. Right you are.....the Giants were toast because they had pretty much lost their fan base. Brooklyn was overwhelmingly Dodger country, the Bronx heavily Yankee except for the black precincts, and Manhattan was wide open, Queens was split between the Yankees and Dodgers and Staten Island mainly Dodger country. |
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