Long time Dodger fans(before they moved to LA): What do you think of Walter O'Malley being elected to the HOF?

Question

do you forgive him for moving your team to LA or not? comments

Answer 1

Was it a popular move? No. Was it a good business decision? Yes. Ebbets Field was located in the middle of the blue collar district of Brooklyn, NY. Hard working people who didn't have much money but who loved their Dodgers and always managed to put just enough money away in order to catch a few games during the season.

The players didn't make much more than the average guy and actually had to work full time at another job during the off season just to make ends meet. The players lived in the same communities as the fans and were just one of the regular people in the neighborhood.

But by the late 1950's things began to change in baseball. There was talk of expansion within the next couple of years and the cost of the economy in general was on the rise.

Brooklyn couldn't support a major league franchise anymore. There was the Yankees and also the Giants to deal with. The Giants played in the Pole Grounds and usually to an empty house. If either team had stayed even two more years in Brooklyn and New York, both franchises would have ended up in financial ruin.

O'Malley had no choice. The LA market was beginning to boom and it was quickly becoming the place to live. The crowd support was incredible and by 1959 the LA Dodgers ended up winning a world championship. The large crowd increased the teams revenue and they have prospered ever since. For that reason alone, he deserves to be in the hall.

The old Brooklyn Dodgers fans were broken hearted at first but by 1962 the Mets joined the National League. The old Dodgers fans had a new team to root for. For that matter so did the old New York Giants fans as well.

Answer 2

Walter O'Malley was a genius. The Dodgers might have stayed in Brooklyn but there were several issues leading to the demise of Ebbets Field --- minimum parking, low seating capacity to name a couple. But the straw that broke the camel’s back was the inability of club owner Walter O’Malley and NYC Building Commissioner Robert Moses to come to an agreement for a new ball field’s location. O’Malley wanted to build a domed stadium in the Atlantic Yards and Moses wanted the team in Queens almost in the exact area where Shea Stadium would later be built for the Mets.

O’Malley started applying political leverage by threatening relocation and was reportedly commuting to and from Los Angeles in an effort to prove his point. Sadly though, he and Moses never could agree and the era of baseball in Brooklyn came to a close with the end of the 1957 season. Ebbets Field would eventually be demolished in February of 1960.

As far as the question goes, yes O'Malley belongs in the HOF. One person who should never have gotten into the hall was that idiot Bowie Kuhn. He has been the worst commissioner to date, however it appears now that Selig is giving him a real run for the money for idiot commissioner of all time. I think that since it's been 50 years now, a lot of Brooklyn fans have probably forgiven O'Malley while others have passed away.

Answer 3

LOL properly, he does ought to make beneficial the ladies people have time to take advantage of the cows and carry jointly the eggs interior the morning and nevertheless get residing house in time to make dinner and iron in the past she pleases her guy on the tip of the day (in uncomplicated terms for expert-introduction of direction, and no exhilaration allowed to the female). Any lady or guy that cares for a girl/women people that votes for this fool is an entire fool

Answer 4

I think this is a slap in the face to New York City...I posted this yesterday, and Gil Hodges was left out of the HOF but they add this traitor.

Answer 5

Yes, he brought baseball to LA and west coast so that more of America could enjoy baseball. He deserves this honor.

Answer 6

Well deserved, he was a visionary and an asset to the game.