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Posted by mcorivervsaf on Sat Oct 20 14:45:04 2012, in response to Re: What if the Dodgers had never moved?, posted by MATHA531 on Sat Oct 20 14:05:24 2012. Just to clarify, they were not making enough money, to be able to compete with the rest of the league, at the time. Their attendance numbers were nowhere near what the Braves franchise had in their first year in Milwaukee in 1953! The Dodgers were lucky enough, just to sell out the ballpark, let alone, draw a million fans! They were playing in an old, aging, Ebbets Field, that needed to replaced with a new ballpark in Downtown Brooklyn! There WAS a decline in attendance, but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as the situation at the Polo Grounds. When Robert Moses rejected O'Malley's proposal to get a new ballpark in Brooklyn, he chose to leave for the West Coast. Moses saw O'Malley's shift to L.A. as a bluff, but he was DEAD wrong. |
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