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When Los Angeles officials attended the 1956 World Series looking to entice a team to move there, they were not even thinking of the Dodgers. Their original target had been the Washington Senators franchise, which eventually moved to Bloomington, Minnesota to become the Minnesota Twins in 1961. At the same time, O'Malley was looking for a contingency in case Moses and other New York politicians refused to let him build the Brooklyn stadium he wanted, and sent word to the Los Angeles officials that he was interested in talking. Los Angeles offered him what New York did not: a chance to buy land somewhat suitable for building a ballpark, and the chance to own that ballpark, giving him complete control over all its revenue streams. At the same time, the National League was not willing to approve the Dodgers' move unless O'Malley found a second team willing to join them out west, largely out of concern for travel costs. [38] The earlier Giants were much more famous than the Dodgers,” the late Larry King said in 2013. “The Giants of (John) McGraw, Carl Hubbell, Christy Mathewson.”

A 2007 HBO film, Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush, is a documentary covering the Dodgers history from early days to the beginning of the Los Angeles era. In the film, the story is related that O'Malley was so hated by Brooklyn Dodger fans after the move to California, that it was said: "If you asked a Brooklyn Dodger fan, if you had a gun with only two bullets in it and were in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and O'Malley, who would you shoot? The answer: O'Malley, twice!"Meanwhile, Giants owner Horace Stoneham was having similar difficulty finding a replacement for his team's antiquated home stadium, the Polo Grounds. Stoneham was considering moving the Giants to Minneapolis, but was persuaded instead to move them to San Francisco, ensuring that the Dodgers had a National League rival closer than St. Louis. So the two arch-rival teams, the Dodgers and Giants, moved out to the West Coast together after the 1957 season.

Going to the Polo Grounds always felt dark, always felt bleak: 155th and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, and the beautiful Yankee Stadium across the bridge,” King said. “The Polo Grounds was a weird place.” Bankers and lawyers and clerks, and they would leave downtown for the Polo Grounds by the train in 1905, 1910, and arrive in time for a game’s start at 3:30,” Thorn said.

Especially the stadium,” said Mintz, whose group has regular video meetings, and more than 2,500 followers on Facebook. “It’s always, ‘Ebbets Field was this.’ And then the Mets build a duplicate of it basically, and then they sit there and tell you, ‘Well, the green seats (at Citi Field) are for the Polo Grounds.’ The Giants, I think in New York as the years went by, probably considered themselves third-class citizens behind the Yankees and Dodgers.” Okrent, Daniel (1988). The Ultimate Baseball Book. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p.352. ISBN 0395361451. Everyone knew the Giants were dead in New York. They had a whole year to accept it, while (Walter) O’Malley’s decision to move to LA seemed rushed, even though he had been dissatisfied with Ebbets Field for a long time.” Many times over the years, Carl Erskine has been asked about the staying power of his Brooklyn Dodgers. He’s always settled on the winner-gone-too-soon theory. But what about the other guys across town? I think the difference in terms of separation in the sort of baseball consciousness between the two franchises, in as much as there was one,” McGee said, “probably came about during the ’60s, after the Giants started to fade, and the Dodgers still had competitive teams through the ’70s.”

Goldblatt, Andrew (3 June 2003). The Giants and the Dodgers: Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry. McFarland. ISBN 9780786416400– via Google Books. On April 18, 1958, the Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in L.A., defeating the former New York and newly moved and renamed San Francisco Giants, 6–5, before 78,672 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. [39] Catcher Roy Campanella, left partially paralyzed in an off-season automobile accident on January 28, 1958, was never able to play for the Dodgers in Los Angeles. But to Thorn, the teams were more defined by the sentiment attached to them rather than specific geographic location.

The historic and heated rivalry between the Dodgers and the Giants is more than a century old. It began when the Dodgers and Giants faced each other in the 1889 World Series, the ancestor of the Subway Series, and both played in separate, neighboring cities. Brooklyn and New York were separate cities until 1898, when they became neighboring boroughs of the newly expanded New York City. When both franchises moved to California after the 1957 season, the rivalry was easily transplanted, as the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco have long been economic, political, and cultural rivals, representative of the broader Southern/ Northern California divide. In longer timelines beyond relocation, the different narrative arcs of the teams may have shaped their memories differently. Early in the 20th century, the Giants were a dominant force. The Dodgers’ exit was more hurtful, Thorn said, “because the Giants had descended to a second-tier ball club after the World Series of ’54. And their attendance, the minimal attendance at the Polo Grounds, was more stark than the still flourishing attendance at Ebbets Field.

The National League (NL) replaced the NAPBBP in 1876 and granted exclusive territories to its eight members, excluding the Atlantics in favor of the Mutual Club of New York who had shared home grounds with the Atlantics. When the Mutuals were expelled by the league, the Hartford club moved in, the press dubbing them The Brooklyn Hartfords, [3] and played its home games at Union Grounds in 1877 before disbanding. The first major-league baseball game to be televised was Brooklyn's 6–1 victory over Cincinnati at Ebbets Field on August 26, 1939. Batting helmets were introduced to Major League Baseball by the Dodgers in 1941.

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But being Broadway’s flame was not enough to widely sustain the Giants’ legacy. Empirically, major figures of subsequent generations have written and spoken more about the Dodgers. Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a book about them. Larry King was a Dodgers fan. Fred Wilpon, the former Mets owner, designed Citi Field as an homage to the Dodgers’ old home, Ebbets Field, not the Giants’ Polo Grounds of Manhattan. by the ownership partner in both teams, Harry Von der Horst, along with famed Orioles manager Ned Hanlon who became the club's new manager in New York / Brooklyn under majority owner Charles Ebbets, who had by now accumulated an 80% share of the club. The new combined team was dubbed the Brooklyn Superbas by the press (inspired by the popular circus act The Hanlons' Superba) and would become the champions of the National League in 1899 and again in 1900.