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50th Anniversary of putting the "National" in our pastime.
Posted By: ItsOnlyGil
Yep, do largely to the efforts of Horace Stoneham and Walter O'Malley fifty years ago this month, major league baseball was brought further west than Sy. Louis for the first time. This of course, eventually evolved from its comparitively megar 16 team two league format, to the exciting world which includes concepts such as Wild Card Teams. |
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50th Anniversary of putting the "National" in our pastime.
Posted By: CN
It is well documented that O,Malley wanted to keep the team in Brooklyn at the Atlantic yards but Robert Moses wouldn,t allow it. I think O,Malley gets a bad wrap. If LA wanted to build you a stadium with land included and NYC was giving you a hard time replacing antiquated Ebbetts Field what would you do? As for Stoneham I think he had a few cocktails when he agreed to build on Candlestick PT. CN |
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50th Anniversary of putting the "National" in our pastime.
Posted By: Paul S
About 15-20 or so years ago I read an article in Esquire -- by Ken Kesey and, I think, Robert Stone (yes, them of the Beat Generation) -- that the Dodgers moving to Los Angeles was tantamount to telling the not only loyal Dodger fans but the American people, "Nothing you will ever do is more important than money." Certainly this has come to pass in baseball, let alone most major sports...I won't tackle the larger issues. I love baseball, but pretty my interest in it has waned in certain ways -- all of them pretty much due to the economics. expansion, diluted talent pool, ticket prices, owners and players arguing, et al. Certainly it has always been a business but for me it begins to collapse under its own ponderous weight. |
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50th Anniversary of putting the "National" in our pastime.
Posted By: boxingcardman
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50th Anniversary of putting the "National" in our pastime.
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
1962 was not as funny as everyone pretended it was. Nor was 1963, '64, '65, '66, '67, '68. But in 1969 it was unbelievable, ask Joe Namath. |
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50th Anniversary of putting the "National" in our pastime.
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
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50th Anniversary of putting the "National" in our pastime.
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
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