Re: [bomp] 1954 Dodgers Yearbook

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

 --- ItsBoss9@aol.com escribis: 
> 
> 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... 

Coney Island might have been a good place for a
stadium ; 
considering how much of it Moses tore down, assuredly
a 
stadium could have been built there....

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! 

At least Hoboken's claim to be the "birthplace of
baseball", while
inaccurate, actually has a little more substance (site
of the first
documented baseball game) 

> 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...

It was the most "major" of the minor leagues. 

 that was actually in the works,
> but also didn't happen. 

Too bad. I'd guess there would've been a 4th major
league as
well (the International League? The Southern League? )
to make a World
Series setup easier....

 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.

Same here. I dont think Gilmore Stadium would have
been 
suitable for a major league team ; but there was
plenty of 
vacant land in the San Fernando Valley at that time
and even
some in more distant parts of the West Side (Marina
del Rey
was undeveloped at that time) 
> 
> Shoulda done, shoulda done, we all cried.  

Agreed 
>  

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