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Posted by Lou From Middletown NY on Sun Oct 21 00:02:33 2012, in response to Re: What if the Dodgers had never moved?, posted by MATHA531 on Sat Oct 20 14:08:19 2012. Actually, the reason O'Malley started looking for a bigger ballpark is because he was getting beat at the time by the Braves, who started drawing 2 million a year in Milwaukee. Plus, his numbers were going down every year, and he was afraid that they would be able to spend more on their farm system, as they were packing them County Stadium, a bigger ball park than O'Malley's small, antiquated ballpark in a declining neighborhood.Funny how channel 9 became the Mets station from day one. As has been said, many works about this whole thing, and here is a couple more - Roger Kahn, who wrote the classic Boys of Summer wrote a book about the 1947-1957 era called...of course, The Era, he gives a lot of the gory details. Also, the Pete Golenbock history of the Mets, Amazin', has a nice history of the Giant/Dodger move, and how Bill Shea and Branch Rickey got MLB to expand. Bill Shea was one helluva guy, and had much more to do with New York sports than just the Mets. Did you know he basically put together the deals that created the Nets, Jets and Islanders? Pretty well....amazing! |
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