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Posted by Dave on Sat Jul 21 18:35:14 2007 Saw a very interesting documentary a few days ago on the history of the Dodgers. It turns out that after their 1955 World Series win, O'Malley planned for the construction of a new state-of-the-art domed stadium at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush. Why there? Because it was the confluence of the existing subway/el lines and the LIRR. He recognized that with tens of thousands of ex-Brookynites moving to LI, this was the easiest way for them to get to the game. There was parking space for only 700 cars at Ebbets Field.He fought for two years but Robert Moses was dead set against it. Moses wanted a new stadium in Queens (which he got in 1964). The land at Atlantic and Flatbush was used by meat markets and the area was slated to be condemned, which O'Malley needed so he could buy the land cheap, but Moses refused to condemn it. Without Moses condemning the land it was unaffordable. O'Malley finally threw in the towel and cut a deal with LA, which gave him 153 acres at no charge to build a new stadium. I found it fascinating that if Moses wasn't such a dictator, dem Bums would have stayed in Brooklyn and the Giants probably wouldn't have moved to San Francisco. What does the latter have to do with the former? The Giants were looking to move to Milwaukee. O'Malley needed at least a second team on the west coast so he convinced Horace Stoneham to make the move with him. And the rest, as they say, is history. |
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