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Posted by MATHA531 on Fri Oct 19 14:43:25 2012, in response to Re: Polo grounds shuttle was to be connected to Lenox Line, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Oct 19 14:33:34 2012. ....then in reality (and I don't necessarily disagree with you) one would have to say Moses, who has been vilified to this day on the question of the removal of the Dodger franchise, was correct namely that the best locaton for the Dodgers would have been Flushing Meadow right smack in the middle of three different expressways all the better to bring the Dodgers' nouveau rich from their suburban homes on Long Island with the two car garages.It is unfortunate people are pointing to whatever success Barcvlay Center might have as proof that Atlantic/Flatbush would have worked for baseball. I just don't think one can compare an arena holding 17k to an outdoor stadium holding 65k and all the problems associated with it. Looking back with 20/20 hindsight, and really I don't mean to vindicate Moses who was a disgusting human being, if O'Malley didn't have a ridiculous offer from LA in his pocket (to give away public land and all the oil rights that might be found there plus to kick people off land they had lived on for years using eminent domain laws_, the Dodgers probably end up in Fluyshing Meadow and can you imagine a powerful Brooklyn Dodger team moving into a new baseball stadium in 1964 with the World's Fair going on next door? And although I know there are a lot of younger people here who think Shea Stadium was a dump, the fact is that when it opened, it was considered a state of the art ball park with many of the same features as Dodger Stadium. Perhaps it might even have ended up looking like Dodger Stadium if O'Mally had been allowed to have some say in its construction although Shea Stadium was built ithe way it was so it could handle both baseball and football whereas Dodger Stadium has never, to the best of my knowledge ever hosted a football game. Of course, another villain in this is Admiral Yamamoto as the American Legue had scheduled a meeting in Chicago to vote on allowing the St. Louis Browns to move to Los Angeles. The only probelm was the meeting was scheduled for 08 Demcember 1941 and somehow something more important occurred the dahy before. Thank yhou Admiral Yamamoto. |
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