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May 25, 2010
NEW YORK'S FAILED SPORTS BIDS
ESPN.com
by Jane McManus
A sidebar to a story on New Jersey's pitch for a Super Bowl reveals that, though we've been correcting the record on the precise location of the site Walter O'Malley was eying for a new Ebbets Field for going on six years now, some media outlets just can't get it straight.
Dodgers in Atlantic Yards
Walter O'Malley was looking to build a new baseball stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers at the very Atlantic Yards site that is now slated to be the future home of the New Jersey Nets. Thanks to powerful New York City planner Robert Moses' lack of cooperation, O'Malley didn't get his stadium, and the Dodgers moved to L.A. after the 1957 season.
Had he succeeded, O'Malley would've built the ballpark across the way, roughly where Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Center mall stands today.
Posted by eric at May 25, 2010 9:31 AM