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Treatment of Brooklyn's move to LA was shockingly slanted and inaccurate


The story of the Dodgers has always been special to me. And I found the story of the move to LA to be the tale of a power struggle between Moses and O'Malley. Burns, for whatever reason, tries to tell this tale as O'Malley trying to force the city to build him a new stadium and then leaving when his demands weren't met. My jaw dropped at this inaccurate account.

It didn't take much research for me to learn of the attempt of O'Malley to acquire land in Brooklyn to build a new stadium. This unsuccessful attempt played out over years while Robert Moses thwarted every move in his own attempt to force the Dodgers to move to a new city-owned Stadium in Flushing (Shea). O'Malley refused and the rest is history.

Burns got this so wrong and it's shocking. Inexcusable.

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So much so that you had to post it 3 times.

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