Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush

So if the Senators go to Atlanta, do the Braves stay in Milwaukee? There wasn't much else place for them to go then other than Atlanta. I don't think Perrini moves them from Milwaukee to Minneapolis.

Lots of what-ifs then.

 

You could see a scenario where the Dodgers move into Shea, the Giants hang on in the Polo Grounds for a few years, then get a baseball stadium built in the Meadowlands and move over there just like their football brethren.

The Pacific Coast League/Continental League counters by making a bid for major-league status, with teams in LA, SF, SD, Houston, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver and Atlanta.

 

A baseball stadium in the Meadowlands today would fail, back in the early '60's it would have been a farce. People go to Giant/Jet games because it is once a week. There isn't any way for people to get to baseball games over there easily for a game everyday. There is no mass transit. The Devils win Stanley Cups and play before a half full house, the Nets have the same problem. Back then no one would have even had the idea to build a stadium there.

The Giants time in NY was over. Even if they stayed and moved into Shea, none of the Dodger fans or Yankee fans would have changed their allegiance to them.

 

That depends. If they had pennant-winning teams with Mays, McCovey, Cepeda and Marichal, who knows?

My guess is, if either the Giants or Dodgers (one or the other) had stayed in NY, they would have been successful. Hell, the Mets drew millions with a dog-ass horrible team for 8 years.

 

C'mon Starman, the Giants and Dodgers moved out of NY 19 years before the Meadowlands was built.
Get a clue!