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Posted by MATHA531 on Sat Oct 20 14:05:24 2012, in response to Re: What if the Dodgers had never moved?, posted by mcorivervsaf on Sat Oct 20 13:30:29 2012. Everything you say is true except one slight error...O"malley was not losing money. As a matter of fact, at the time, the Dodgers were the biggest money makers in baseball between their television rights (well here's something you might not know. There were only two independent television stations in New York to televise baseball, channels 9 and 11. Now obviousl3 into 2 doesn't go very well. As a matter of fact, the Yankees and Giants shared channel 11 for home games only. We never saw a Yankee road game except sindce the Giants played quite a few day home games, on some of those days the Yankees would trelvise a night road game but say a weekend series in Boston was not televised in NY. The Dodgers had channel 9 to themselves and thus theyu televised all home games and 2/3 of their road games with a further 11 Dodger road games at the Polo Grounds not needed to be televised. Thus we saw 140 Dodger games ever5y season on channel 9. The Dodgers were channel 9 and channel 9 was the Dodgers_. They had the right to the pre game show (Happy Felton's nmothole gamg for home games). They had the rights to the post game show (Happy Felton talks to the stars). On radio, they had the largest radio network in baseball. On their flagship, WMGM 1050 they had the rights to the pre game called Warm Up Time with Marty Glickman, Ward Wilson and tennis star Gussie Moran.The Dodgers were making money head over heels. I don't know where this myth came from they were losing money. Nothing is further from the truth. And their home attendance led the National League every year through 1956. In 1957 with everybody knowing they were gone, they finished third in the NL in attendance but still drew over a million which, as I said earlier, was the bellweather mark. The only team consistantly outdrawing them was the Milwaukere Braves who had moved form Boston in 1953 but with, again 20/20 hindsight, we now now just how temporary that was to be. If you're a capitalist, and I'm not saying I'm not, what O'Maslley did was well within what might have been best for O'Malley and his personal fortune. But don't believe for one second the Brooklyn Dodgers were losing money. And you can look that up. |
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