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Posted by MATHA531 on Mon Oct 12 23:36:25 2015, in response to Re: What If The Dodgers had not moved from Brooklyn?, posted by MATHA531 on Mon Oct 12 23:10:40 2015. Myths of the theft of the Brooklyn franchise that too many people have been brainwashed into believing but were simply untrue...1. Robert Moses was solely responsible for what happened. Moses certainly didn't help but once again there were and still are eminent domain laws on the books in NY State and despite the fact the city administration was totally behind the construction of Barclay Center despite the Manhattan centric nature of the mayor, and Bruce Ratner included a hosing provision which it looks like he never intended to build, it took five years of litigation to get the construction started. O'Malley didn't intend to wait that long. 2. Shea Stadium was a dump the day it opened and just deteriorated. Snea Stadium, when it opend, was a state of the art ballpark in many ways modeled after Chavez Ravine Stadium except Shea had provisions for moving the lower deck for football. Yes it deteriorated in the finl years the Payson family owned it but if O'Mally ey were playing there, that never would have happened. 3. The Dodgers were losing money in Brooklyn because nobody was going to the games. A lie. The Dodgers led the NL in attendance until 1953 when Milwaukee acquired the Braves and was second every year thereafter till 1957 when in their lame duck year in Brooklyn, they fell all the way to third. Of course their radio/tv rights including the pre and post game shows were by far the largest in baseball and every Brooklyn home game as well as 2/3 of the road games were on FREE television. Look. I represent the last generation of people who were alive and old enough to understand what was gooing on and lived through those days. People younger than I am have to get their information through the books that have been written with the latest one full of lies about how wonderful O'Malley was and how it was Robert Moses who stymied his plans (which would have cost the City of New York a pretty penny). People older than I am are, for the most part, no longer with us to try to correct the records that even Brooklynites have come to believe. In a few years, I will be joining them and there will be nobody left to tell what truly happened in 1957 and what was done to the Brooklyn fan base in the name of greed. |
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