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July 17, 2007
Reconsidering O'Malley
NY Daily News, Letter to the Editor
Manhattan: I don't understand why Walter O'Malley gets all the blame for the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn.
He had no choice but to leave. Ebbets Field was too small and had too few parking spaces. He asked Robert Moses many times to build a new stadium at Atlantic and Flatbush, but Moses wouldn't have anything to do with it.
[Ironically, even the master of unintended consequences knew that a ballpark near Atlantic and Flatbush would create "a China Wall of traffic."]
New York can't keep teams. The baseball Giants left. The football Giants left. The Jets left. The Islanders left. New York wants teams - but it doesn't do what's needed to keep them here. And Bruce Ratner is called a rat for bringing the Nets back - to Atlantic and Flatbush, which has been an eyesore since O'Malley's time till now.
New Yorkers are never happy.
Blame O'Malley for getting rid of Branch Rickey and trading Jackie Robinson - but you can't blame him for moving the Dodgers.
Edward Drossman
NoLandGrab: Thankfully, New Yorkers are not monolithic. Being a sports fan doesn't mean that one has to support moving teams to NYC, or keeping them here, at the expense of one's neighbors.
Posted by lumi at July 17, 2007 9:09 AM