[bomp] 1954 Dodgers Yearbook

[ItsBoss9@xxxxxxx]

I thought that there was no chance of the Dodgers
staying permanently in Ebbets Field ; that if they had
stayed in NYC they would have moved into Shea Stadium
once that opened. Remember hearing that O'Malley
thought that fans would never accept the Dodgers
playing in Queens - and if they were going to move to
Queens they might as well move to LA.....

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE, but you have to remember that O'Malley had all kinds 
of expensive plans drawn up, permits in the works and everything for building 
a new Brooklyn Dodger Stadium by the train tracks somewhere... it's all 
discussed in that book THE DODGERS MOVE WEST, but if you want to see what that 
stadium would have looked like, go to google and look up the 1954 DODGERS 
YEARBOOK...  the Brooklyn Dodger Stadium is drawn on the cover!

O'Malley tangled with that Moses fuck, and Mayor Wagner was a puss, so both 
Horace Stoneman and O'Malley gave up and moved West... Everybody blames 
O'Malley, but that's because they don't know shit about Robert Moses...That's also 
covered in the book about Moses THE POWER BROKER.  People who blame O'Malley 
live by dumb-ass "baseball history" myths... these idiots also believed baseball 
was invented in Cooperstown for what, 100 years!  When are they going to join 
the flat earth society?

What should have happened is O'Malley should have got his Brooklyn ballpark, 
and the Pacific Coast League should have become the third major league during 
the early '50s... that was actually in the works, but also didn't happen.  And 
Chavez Ravine should have had that Neutra housing project built there... the 
followup to Ramona Gardens (Cannibal & the Headhunters came out of there)... 
but of course, the Neutra housing project for Chavez Ravine got killed because 
of the McCarthy vibe and the press calling it "communist".  That's when L.A. 
started to manuever with Minneapolis/St. Paul for the Dodgers.  Me, I'd have 
been happy to be a Hollywood Stars fan after I was born in 1960.

Shoulda done, shoulda done, we all cried.  

Domenic Priore

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