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Posted by MATHA531 on Mon Jul 23 15:01:38 2007, in response to Re: Brooklyn Dodgers (on topic), posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jul 23 14:43:20 2007. O'Malley could have rehabilitated Ebbets Field which was built around the same time as Fenway Park and Wrigley Field both of which are still going strong today...ah but they were only drawing 1,000,000 a year I hear people cry...well that was considered the threshold between fair and good in that era...check out the attendance of other teams and see what they were drawing.....only Milwaukee was consistantly out drawing Brooklyn in the National League and of course they didn't have nearly the same sources of revenue the Dodgers had.O'Malley could have looked ot make his own deal...what about the land down by Floyd Bennet Field...why didn't he explore that? And it wasn't as if he wasn't offered a suitable place for a ballpark namely Flushing Meadow...he rejected that offer without a second gthought. You know for a long time, many people felt the Mets' lease at Shea Stadium was a sweetheart deal....did O'Malley actually investigate with him the possiblity of Flushing Meadow? Or did O'Malley say no way jose (or bob) when the topic was brought up with the ridiculous assertion he could not call them the Brooklyn Dodgers if he played at Queens. And yes, he could have waited for moses to croak also...he was far younger than Moses and was making money in Brooklyn head over heels. And as has been noted, it was illegal under NYS law for Moses to hand the land at Flatbush & Atlantic to O'Malley...illegal period end of the discussion. But O'Malley either was blind to the law, hard to believe as he was a lawyer, or had decided he was moving to la la land and all this Flatbush-Atlantic business was simply for the sake of posterity as is being pushed now by the imoster organization playing on the left coast that calls itself the Dodgers. |
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