Timeline: From Brooklyn to LA: The Dodgers' Story

[elleng]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/01/22/sports/baseball/22reuters-dodgers-timeline.html?_r=1&hp

[ellisonz]

1. Think Blue. n/t

[meow2u3]

2. My mom called 1958 "the year Walter O'Malley raped the borough of Brooklyn"

She, of course, was a Brooklyn-born-and-raised Brooklyn dodger fan who hated the LA "Dodgers." She used to call them the "Los Angeles Baseball Club" in a sneering tone of utter contempt.

It looks as if she can finally rest in peace, now that the LA Dodgers are filing for bankruptcy.

[elleng]

3. I thoroughly agree with her,

tho left Brooklyn as a kid, with family, in '54. Always have been a BROOKLYN Dodger fan.

[wilt the stilt]

4. Robert Moses was actually the reason why they moved

He was an asshole to the O'Malleys and they didn't want to move. He blocked a new stadium. That being said I always thought I had a full dodger ball from 1949 with jackie Robinson on it. I had it looked at and it turns out the jackie signature was a "clubhouse signature". It ruined what would have been a $5,000 ball to $1500. It was my pride and joy.
Fortunately we did find out we have a Cleveland Indians ball from 1948 with 7 HOF's on it and it is worth $8,000.

[elleng]

5. Right. Thanks for the heads-up.

'Dodgers were soon victims of their own success, because only a limited number of eager fans could cram into minuscule Ebbets Field, and it had almost no automobile parking for Dodger fans who had moved east to suburban Long Island, though it was near a subway station. Club owner Walter O'Malley announced plans for a privately-owned domed stadium for his Dodgers at the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, where a large market was being torn down, but New York City Building Commissioner Robert Moses wanted the city to build a stadium located in Flushing Meadows in the borough of Queens (the future site of Shea Stadium and Citi Field). O'Malley refused to consider Moses' position, and Moses refused O'Malley's.'

We were among the families that left Brooklyn for Long Island in those days, but not to escape, for other, family, reasons.