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Posted by MATHA531 on Wed Feb 14 07:05:14 2007, in response to A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Feb 9 14:16:58 2007. Well at least in the myriad of responses here, nobody has repeated the myth being perpetrated by certain elements of the Los Angeles National League Baseball team that it was RM who forced poor Walter O'Malley to move the franchise from Brooklyn.In this one instant, all RM was doing was enforcing a NY State law that prohibited the imposition of eminent domain to take property from one private company (the Penssylvania Railroad Company which at the time owned the Long Island Rail Road) to line the pockets of another private enterprise (the fat slob half human Walter O'Malley). It is interesting to note that in the Carol book, over 1,000 pages, there is exactly one mention of the situation with the baseball team. But as some in the renegade left coast baseball organization such as Vin Scully and Tommy Lasorda try to get O'Malley elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, this myth that it was Robert Moses who was primary responsible for the theft of the franchise has begun to be accepted by more and more who were nogt around when this occurred. |
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