I love the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers. They never should have left. Having grown up in Brooklyn, they represent it all. Our resolve. The underdog mentality. Never giving up. Breaking barriers. With hard work and a little bit of luck, even Bums can be Champs! They teach me never to give up on my teams. Always next year.
They'll always belong to Brooklyn.Dodgers are a world wide brand but no one can deny it is so because of the history from 1890-1956 is why so. My fav jersey is my Brooklyn one, i'll sport a Dodgers jersey but that's about it. It's hard for me an LA native to call them the LA Dodgers. Their name is Dodgers, but they're from Brooklyn, resilient, fair, under dogs.
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GO DODGERS!! Wish there was a time machine so I could go back and see my beloved team from Flatbush. I live in L.A. so of course I'm a fan. But I just wish I could see when they were playing in Brooklyn and actually see Ebbets Field.
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Although I am a life long Yankee fan (Bronx born), what I really am is a baseball fan, especially the 30s through the 50s, and any true baseball fan has to love the story of the Dodgers...and hate what eventually happened to them. I can remember watching the demolition of Ebbetts Field on TV and feeling very sad and melancholy about it, even though, as I stated, I was an avowed Yankee fan. I was only a kid, but I sensed that something good had been taken from all of us, not just the Dodger fans.
That intro music and then the sign that says bring the Dodgers home to Brooklyn always gets me. And I’m from Chicago and a Cubs fan! Great filmmaking and narration. Love the history of it all.
HBO did a baseball documentary called "when it was a game." the irony is that during this time it was MORE than a game. Much more. Today, it's just a game - and a silly one at that.
I think I liked the Dodgers a lot when I was a kid. 74 years later I can still recite the starting lineup of the 49 Dodgers from memory. Can not do that for any other team and I was a Cardinal fan!
Young kid from LA. I'm mostly into football(Raiders). Trying to get into Baseball, I'm a dodger fan but I gotta understand the game and out history. Thank you !
I've been a Dodgers fan since before I was born in '68! Grandparents came from Ireland & settled in Bklyn.. got "American" a.s.a.p... did WWII .. and raised me a Dodgers fan. I played Little League on the Dodgers and wore #4 - my nickname was "Duke".
As a lifelong Dodgers fan, I love watching this series. As you can figure from my "handle" I was born in 1956 so I don't remember the Brooklyn years. It saddens me that people blamed Walter O'Malley back then (and some still do today). If you do the research, while O'Malley should take some criticism, he really loved Brooklyn and tried many times to work out a stadium deal that would have kept the team there. It was only as a last and final resort that he agreed to move the team to Los Angeles. The City of New York, and especially Robert Moses, are the ones that should be blamed for a large part of all this - some have absolved O'Malley and say it's all Moses. There are a number of books, TV documentaries and other resources that examine the move and most of them to the same conclusion - that to blame O'Malley for the whole thing is wrong. The move to Los Angeles was a huge success - unless you are a real die-hard Brooklyn fan who pines for the team to "come home", this is pretty obvious. By the way, I have noticed a few comments here from people who seem to want the Dodgers to abandon Los Angeles and "come home". But here's a dose of reality. The Dodgers played 46 seasons at Ebbets Field. They passed that mark at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in 2008 - and as of the 2015 season, they have now played 64 seasons at Chavez Ravine. As with every season since 1962, the closest you will ever see the Dodgers return to Brooklyn is when they come to New York every year to play the Mets (or the Yankees, thanks to inter-league play). But all this shouldn't take away the fact that the Brooklyn Dodgers are loved and revered by fans worldwide. And rightly so. To end where I started, I am a lifelong Dodgers fan. Both Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Wait 'till next year!!
So many people forget that the Dodgers were the second most attended team in baseball, and the second wealthiest....after the Yankees. There was no need to move
My mother, who's African American, grew up in the South in the 1940s and 50s a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. When I was 4 or 5, she sat me down and told me the story of Jackie, Roy, and the Dodgers, and I've been a fan ever since. It's kind of funny, just as she had her heart broken as a child many a time by the Yankees, so did I in 77 and 78. but you know, had the Dodgers always won, or even won more often, they probably wouldn't have been as loved, e.g., there's no way the biggest NY fan can love the Yanks the way Dodgers fans..."real" Dodgers fans, love the Dodgers.
The Robert Moses as villain revisionism is 1000% Bullsxxx and is solely the product of Peter O'Malley's tenacious rewriting of history to get his father into the Hall of Fame, and capitalizing on the fact that Robert Moses has no living heirs who can respond with the truth. All this crap about how O'Malley was blocked from a reasonable site fails to take into account what EVERY NYC politician back then, including those who hated Moses knew full well. O'Malley was insisting that $9 million worth of land be condemned through eminent domain and handed over to him and for the taxpayers to absorb the relocation costs of a meat market and other businesses. And how much was Walter going to pony up? No more than $1 million leaving city taxpayers on the hook. That is what is known by any other definition as CORPORATE WELFARE, something O'Malley wasn't entitled to and in point of fact, a lot of Brooklynites didn't like that idea either. Have you ever wondered why there wasn't a groundswell of Brooklyn fans picketing O'Malley in those days in the way Cleveland was riled up in 1995? Beacuse most Brooklynites believe it or not adopted an attitude that if O'Malley was insisting on that kind of extortion deal on the backs of hardworking taxpayers as the price to keep the team, then most of them were prepared to say, "Don't let the door hit you on the way out!". Shea Stadium and the success of the Mets ultimately proved that Moses had the right idea about a ballpark location that would attract the NL fanbase in NY. O'Malley though wanted to maximize his bottom line and so that's why he left. And that's why he also made sure no one in LA got to see any home games on TV for decades, among other things. He was simply not a nice man when it came to how he treated the fanbase and I for one find it sickening to see his reputation rehabilitated thanks to the con job pulled by his son.
The Dodgers were in Brooklyn much longer than Ebbets Field! Wee Willie Keeler, a Brooklyn boy, starred for them in the 1890's. They were born in Bklyn when it was still an independent city accessible only by ferry!'
Being A lifelong Red Sox Fan I think The Brooklyn Team (Not LA) & The Red Sox have a lot in common & were similar teams. Both Teams had a rabid fan base (I say had because the Brooklyn Team is gone) & were beloved in their city & neighborhood, they both had iconic stadiums. They would both get to an eyelash of winning The World Series & lose in heartbreaking fashion, they have both feel victim to The Yankees many times when it was all in the line & last, but not least they both got revenge on The Yankees when it counted the most. I think it's safe to say that if I were alive back when The Dodgers were still in Brooklyn that I would be a fan of them.
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Nah, Moses was just someone O'Malley could point the finger at and say "Oh look! I tried! But Moses wouldn't let me!" when the reality is the buck stopped with O'Malley. Nobody "forced" him to move. He made ridiculous demands and when they weren't met, he tried to absolve himself. O'Malley is to blame 100%.
Very true Moses was the reason the Dodgers and the Giants left NYC, yet that SOB has a expressway named after him here in upstate, NY. My dad told me he had a lot of power back then even over the Mayor of NYC at that time.
Tom Johnson And the irony now is that the O'Malley family now owns a team who, along with their fan base, hates the Dodgers more than even the Giants do, and that's the San Diego Padres. (Having lived in San Diego for 30 years, I can personally vouch for that.) Two of principal owners of the Padres are Kevin and Brian O'Malley, the grandsons of Walter O'Malley.
I'm not sure. Personally, I think Modell belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. After all, Monday Night Football was his idea, and he was always one of the most respected men in the ownership fraternity. If not for John Elway, his Browns teams of the late 80s might have been in as many as three Super Bowls, and he was the guy that gave Bill Belichick his first head caching job in 1991. They were on the verge of something big when Modell decided to move the team to Baltimore, a move that was forced on him because Cleveland would not build him a new stadium to replace the dilapidated 70+ year old Cleveland Stadium. The timing was bad, but he had no choice. And then, within five years, he has a championship in Baltimore and, along with Ozzie Newsome, helped keep the Ravens more than competitive until he sold the team to it's current owner, and in 2012, they won their second Super Bowl. Sure, he's no longer around, having passed away on the eve of the 2012 NFL season, but the stability he helped provide was a key step in the Ravens becoming one of the elite teams over the last 15 years. I'm not sure Art Modell will ever get elected into the hall of Fame, but he certainly deserves to be, along with another owner that led two franchises to greatness, former Colts and Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom. Joe Robbie should also get in someday, as well.
I'm not sure about Georgia Frontiere, who inherited the Rams when Carroll Rosenbloom died in 1979. I always thought she got a bad rap because she moved the Rams following the '94 season, but like Modell did with the Browns, she was effectively forced to move the franchise because of stadium problems. The Rams played in a stadium that suffered $7 million of damage to the seating as a result of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. That was the final straw, because the team had deteriorated, the fans stopped showing up, the Raiders became a more popular team in L.A. (though they returned to Oakland after the '94 season), and worst of all, down in San Diego, the Chargers were in the Super Bowl following the '94 season.
I lived in LA, 88-90. Went to many, many games there. Moved to NYC, Queens, Throgsneck. 1st thing I did was ride the J-train to Brooklyn, walked through the gardens to 5 points.
best thing o'malley ever did is get the dodgers OUT brooklyn,failure to build the dome,crime,ebbetts was a smelly dump,nostalgia clouds realistic thinking.Los Angeles and moving there was a no brainer O'malley was right and I would of done the same,fact is he should of moved out sooner.still,this a terrific documentary.
Bring Dodgers back to Brooklyn where it has been belong!! But been grew up in Los Angeles when i went to watch games lot besides stink place to smell as smog does! Hope Dodgers bring back to Brooklyn! Forget Los Angeles for sure! That why it name aka is lost angels! I'm sure that could grow strong in Brooklyn than Los Angeles! If that can bring back then they will come back and hold the place forever.. Go Brooklyn Dodgers!!
Honestly I fell Walter did not have any intent to stay. During the 50s and 60s stadiums moved away from the inner city,Atlantic and Flatbush was first a traffic nightmare and not we're stadiums were constructed in that era. A good site for that time would've been the Floyd Bennett Airfield near the Belt Parkway. Ample parking and right next to Moses Belt Parkway which would attract people from Staten Island and Long Island. That's my opinion.
They could, but the Yankees & Mets will veto the plain over territory rights, plus the Mets have a minor league team playing in Brooklyn called the Brooklyn Cyclones who play at Maimonides Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn
Dodgers deserved better. Now they belong to hyper-tanned, beach ball-bouncing enter in the third inning and leave in the 7th Angelenos who have only a casual interest in baseball. Not to mention the thuggery in the outfield seats. What a shame.
Kim Martin No kidding, dude! Oh, Dude, that blows my mind! How totally awesome of you to point that out, dude! That's like totally relevant to my objections, dude! Had I like, totally, known THAT, I would be like, so, that's cool, dude, because, the Dodgers have, like, been in LA since, like, 1958, dude, and who gives like, a fuck about the history of the team before that? Like, dude! You have like, totally cool comprehension aptitudes, dude! Like, why would a video that purports to be a history of the Dodgers focus on 50 years of it's existence including the team's inception? Like no way, dude. If they HAD done that, I would be like, "Hey dude! No way!" Thank you, dude.
Just happy a REAL New Yorker said that to you, so sick of you out of state transplants invading our fair city, and then live here for 6 months and consider yourselves new yorkers because you work here but your hearts belong somewhere else
It's amazing how stupid Robert Moses was. He caused National League Baseball to leave New York and his highways destroyed the neighborhoods. He was less a city planner than a destroyer of the city. My beloved Dodgers belonged in Brooklyn. I am still a Dodger fan but it's not the same. However, I feel lucky that I grew up in Brooklyn and had the experience of falling in love with The Boys of Summer.
Robert Moses had nothing to do with it, period. Let me ask you a blunt question. Would your love of the Dodgers extended to seeing your taxes go through the roof to fund a corporate welfare project in which you the taxpayer would be responsible for 90% of the costs of relocating the businesses at Atlantic Avenue solely so Walter O'Malley could profit more? Well guess what, that was how the taxpayers felt then which is why none of them backed O'Malley's proposal. They didn't need Robert Moses to object because even all of Moses' political enemies knew it was a nutty idea that amounted to civic extortion. The man who deserves all the blame is O'Malley and no one else.
I was born in 1949, and I have little memory of the Brooklyn Dodgers. I grew up a Mets fan. I went to a game in 1962, first time the Dodgers returned to New York. It was an SRO crown. "62 Mets were the worst team of all time. True story- Mets were losing 17-0, in the 4th inning, and it started to rain. Standing ovation for the rain. Of course, sun came out later. Polo Grounds was the worst dump of a stadium you ever saw, but the Mets became prosperous later. I'm 64, so you really have to be old to be a Brooklyn Dodger fan, that was even before my time.
I respect the Dodgers, but hate it when people refer to the Mets as a "cheap imitation" first of all the Mets were the first NYC team to draw 3 million fans in 1 year, not the Yankees. Secondly, the Mets were not "replacing" Brooklyn as they were in Queens and had their own identity from the start. Thirdly: Miracle Mets of '69 and the epic '86 comeback never happen if Brooklyn stays. The Mets now have existed longer than Brooklyn ever did and deserve respect because we have the BEST FANS in MLB.
It doesn't help the Mets effort to build their own identity when for too many years they had an owner who was hell-bent determined to turn them into Brooklyn Dodgers II from the design of the new stadium, to the over-emphasis on Dodger history over Mets history in its rotunda, and then there was that many year experiment of the Mets wearing those all-white unis instead of the traditional pinstripe because it made them look like the Dodgers. I was appalled that not once in the 1999 and 2000 postseasons (especially the Subway Series) that the Mets never wore their traditional home uni once (wearing the idiotic black tops when they weren't wearing the Dodger whites).
They mentioned that Chavez Ravine was abandoned. It wasnt abandoned, the people of Chavez Ravine were forced out, ripped off and destroyed a community.
Luciano, Los Angeles began removing residents from Chavez Ravine as early as 1949. Years before the Dodgers considered moving to LA. They had a plan to built a massive housing project on the site. Once O'Malley considered LA, the city offered him the property and he took it. All those people would have been removed from their homes in Chavez Ravine even if they never decided to move here.
funny, I was just thinking the same thing about Frank. I honestly think I could write and sing better songs, and I've never written a song nor am I much of a singer.
"the hot dogs and the beer"? give me a break. waaaaay to cheesy. What about family? the neighborhood? the people? the team?....so many other great topics to feed off of.....Effin Beer?...Come on Frankie.......Hell i'll write one.
I love the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers. They never should have left.
Having grown up in Brooklyn, they represent it all. Our resolve.
The underdog mentality. Never giving up. Breaking barriers.
With hard work and a little bit of luck, even Bums can be Champs!
They teach me never to give up on my teams. Always next year.
+New York Sports Has 54 Championships The Mets are a sorry substitute.
They'll always belong to Brooklyn.Dodgers are a world wide brand but no one can deny it is so because of the history from 1890-1956 is why so. My fav jersey is my Brooklyn one, i'll sport a Dodgers jersey but that's about it. It's hard for me an LA native to call them the LA Dodgers. Their name is Dodgers, but they're from Brooklyn, resilient, fair, under dogs.
New York Sports Has 54 Championships They should never have left, definitely!!! Take this from a former Yankees fan!
So do you support the Los Angels Dodgers in 2018?
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GO DODGERS!! Wish there was a time machine so I could go back and see my beloved team from Flatbush. I live in L.A. so of course I'm a fan. But I just wish I could see when they were playing in Brooklyn and actually see Ebbets Field.
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Me too
Me three.
Although I am a life long Yankee fan (Bronx born), what I really am is a baseball fan, especially the 30s through the 50s, and any true baseball fan has to love the story of the Dodgers...and hate what eventually happened to them. I can remember watching the demolition of Ebbetts Field on TV and feeling very sad and melancholy about it, even though, as I stated, I was an avowed Yankee fan. I was only a kid, but I sensed that something good had been taken from all of us, not just the Dodger fans.
Rest easy, Mr. Erskine.
Yours was a life well lived.
That intro music and then the sign that says bring the Dodgers home to Brooklyn always gets me. And I’m from Chicago and a Cubs fan! Great filmmaking and narration. Love the history of it all.
And rest easy, Mr. Gossett.
You'll always be a favorite.
this has to be the best sports doc ever!!!
One of the best documentaries I ever saw. Thanks for the post Victor !
HBO did a baseball documentary called "when it was a game." the irony is that during this time it was MORE than a game. Much more. Today, it's just a game - and a silly one at that.
I so agree... between the beards and the asinine haircuts... it lost it's magic.
and don't forget the pie-in-the-face victory celebrations.
Thank you for putting this whole thing up. Can't find it anywhere but here. Great documentary!
I think I liked the Dodgers a lot when I was a kid. 74 years later I can still recite the starting lineup of the 49 Dodgers from memory. Can not do that for any other team and I was a Cardinal fan!
Young kid from LA. I'm mostly into football(Raiders). Trying to get into Baseball, I'm a dodger fan but I gotta understand the game and out history. Thank you !
This is a great start. Dodgers, Lakers, and Rams. No Raiders.
rudy melgar Yeah, Raider fans did a great job of supporting their team when they were here. Nolan Harrison thinks you guys suck. He is not wrong. :)
rudy melgar couldn’t tell you but he was right. Raider fans in LA didn’t support the team very well.
Lakers usc angels chargers no rams no raiders no niners
This documentary made me cry so much
Victor Miramontes thank you very much. I love watching stuff about the bums and the history of a proud and deeply beloved Brooklyn Dodgers!
Your welcome 😊
I've been a Dodgers fan since before I was born in '68! Grandparents came from Ireland & settled in Bklyn.. got "American" a.s.a.p... did WWII .. and raised me a Dodgers fan. I played Little League on the Dodgers and wore #4 - my nickname was "Duke".
i am a yankees fan but love seeing baseball documentaries
+francisco diaz 1955. We have the best ring.
New York Sports Has 54 Championships how many times did we beat y'all..?? bums
I'm a Cardinals fan and so do I. It was Brooklyn fans that gave Stan Musial his famous nickname - "Stan the Man".
As a lifelong Dodgers fan, I love watching this series. As you can figure from my "handle" I was born in 1956 so I don't remember the Brooklyn years. It saddens me that people blamed Walter O'Malley back then (and some still do today). If you do the research, while O'Malley should take some criticism, he really loved Brooklyn and tried many times to work out a stadium deal that would have kept the team there. It was only as a last and final resort that he agreed to move the team to Los Angeles. The City of New York, and especially Robert Moses, are the ones that should be blamed for a large part of all this - some have absolved O'Malley and say it's all Moses. There are a number of books, TV documentaries and other resources that examine the move and most of them to the same conclusion - that to blame O'Malley for the whole thing is wrong. The move to Los Angeles was a huge success - unless you are a real die-hard Brooklyn fan who pines for the team to "come home", this is pretty obvious. By the way, I have noticed a few comments here from people who seem to want the Dodgers to abandon Los Angeles and "come home". But here's a dose of reality. The Dodgers played 46 seasons at Ebbets Field. They passed that mark at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in 2008 - and as of the 2015 season, they have now played 64 seasons at Chavez Ravine. As with every season since 1962, the closest you will ever see the Dodgers return to Brooklyn is when they come to New York every year to play the Mets (or the Yankees, thanks to inter-league play). But all this shouldn't take away the fact that the Brooklyn Dodgers are loved and revered by fans worldwide. And rightly so. To end where I started, I am a lifelong Dodgers fan. Both Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Wait 'till next year!!
That would be 54 years at Chavez Ravine as of 2015, which is still more years than the time at Ebbets.
So many people forget that the Dodgers were the second most attended team in baseball, and the second wealthiest....after the Yankees. There was no need to move
My mother, who's African American, grew up in the South in the 1940s and 50s a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. When I was 4 or 5, she sat me down and told me the story of Jackie, Roy, and the Dodgers, and I've been a fan ever since. It's kind of funny, just as she had her heart broken as a child many a time by the Yankees, so did I in 77 and 78. but you know, had the Dodgers always won, or even won more often, they probably wouldn't have been as loved, e.g., there's no way the biggest NY fan can love the Yanks the way Dodgers fans..."real" Dodgers fans, love the Dodgers.
The Robert Moses as villain revisionism is 1000% Bullsxxx and is solely the product of Peter O'Malley's tenacious rewriting of history to get his father into the Hall of Fame, and capitalizing on the fact that Robert Moses has no living heirs who can respond with the truth. All this crap about how O'Malley was blocked from a reasonable site fails to take into account what EVERY NYC politician back then, including those who hated Moses knew full well. O'Malley was insisting that $9 million worth of land be condemned through eminent domain and handed over to him and for the taxpayers to absorb the relocation costs of a meat market and other businesses. And how much was Walter going to pony up? No more than $1 million leaving city taxpayers on the hook. That is what is known by any other definition as CORPORATE WELFARE, something O'Malley wasn't entitled to and in point of fact, a lot of Brooklynites didn't like that idea either. Have you ever wondered why there wasn't a groundswell of Brooklyn fans picketing O'Malley in those days in the way Cleveland was riled up in 1995? Beacuse most Brooklynites believe it or not adopted an attitude that if O'Malley was insisting on that kind of extortion deal on the backs of hardworking taxpayers as the price to keep the team, then most of them were prepared to say, "Don't let the door hit you on the way out!". Shea Stadium and the success of the Mets ultimately proved that Moses had the right idea about a ballpark location that would attract the NL fanbase in NY. O'Malley though wanted to maximize his bottom line and so that's why he left. And that's why he also made sure no one in LA got to see any home games on TV for decades, among other things. He was simply not a nice man when it came to how he treated the fanbase and I for one find it sickening to see his reputation rehabilitated thanks to the con job pulled by his son.
The Dodgers were in Brooklyn much longer than Ebbets Field! Wee Willie Keeler, a Brooklyn boy, starred for them in the 1890's. They were born in Bklyn when it was still an independent city accessible only by ferry!'
5:32 ...my father trow me out the window. Haha
Being A lifelong Red Sox Fan I think The Brooklyn Team (Not LA) & The Red Sox have a lot in common & were similar teams. Both Teams had a rabid fan base (I say had because the Brooklyn Team is gone) & were beloved in their city & neighborhood, they both had iconic stadiums. They would both get to an eyelash of winning The World Series & lose in heartbreaking fashion, they have both feel victim to The Yankees many times when it was all in the line & last, but not least they both got revenge on The Yankees when it counted the most. I think it's safe to say that if I were alive back when The Dodgers were still in Brooklyn that I would be a fan of them.
looking all over for this video having a father from Brooklyn he would just love this
Great series even the music- intro song - fits
Damn shame. Brooklyn waited for decades until the Dodgers became great. Then... they leave.
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True. How true.
Good point. Great point.
Amazing point.
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People hated O’Malley for decades, when the person they should have been pissed at was Robert Moses.
Nah, Moses was just someone O'Malley could point the finger at and say "Oh look! I tried! But Moses wouldn't let me!" when the reality is the buck stopped with O'Malley. Nobody "forced" him to move. He made ridiculous demands and when they weren't met, he tried to absolve himself. O'Malley is to blame 100%.
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Victor Miramontes Love This Loved the Dodgers then PEE WEE The Duke and the whole team!
Why is O'Malley such a hated man in Brooklyn yet today? I think Robert Moses is the man most responsible for the Dodgers move west.
Very true Moses was the reason the Dodgers and the Giants left NYC, yet that SOB has a expressway named after him here in upstate, NY. My dad told me he had a lot of power back then even over the Mayor of NYC at that time.
O'Malley is the owner. The owner ultimately has the say on whether a team packs up and leaves
Tom Johnson And the irony now is that the O'Malley family now owns a team who, along with their fan base, hates the Dodgers more than even the Giants do, and that's the San Diego Padres. (Having lived in San Diego for 30 years, I can personally vouch for that.) Two of principal owners of the Padres are Kevin and Brian O'Malley, the grandsons of Walter O'Malley.
I'm not sure. Personally, I think Modell belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. After all, Monday Night Football was his idea, and he was always one of the most respected men in the ownership fraternity. If not for John Elway, his Browns teams of the late 80s might have been in as many as three Super Bowls, and he was the guy that gave Bill Belichick his first head caching job in 1991. They were on the verge of something big when Modell decided to move the team to Baltimore, a move that was forced on him because Cleveland would not build him a new stadium to replace the dilapidated 70+ year old Cleveland Stadium. The timing was bad, but he had no choice.
And then, within five years, he has a championship in Baltimore and, along with Ozzie Newsome, helped keep the Ravens more than competitive until he sold the team to it's current owner, and in 2012, they won their second Super Bowl. Sure, he's no longer around, having passed away on the eve of the 2012 NFL season, but the stability he helped provide was a key step in the Ravens becoming one of the elite teams over the last 15 years.
I'm not sure Art Modell will ever get elected into the hall of Fame, but he certainly deserves to be, along with another owner that led two franchises to greatness, former Colts and Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom. Joe Robbie should also get in someday, as well.
I'm not sure about Georgia Frontiere, who inherited the Rams when Carroll Rosenbloom died in 1979. I always thought she got a bad rap because she moved the Rams following the '94 season, but like Modell did with the Browns, she was effectively forced to move the franchise because of stadium problems. The Rams played in a stadium that suffered $7 million of damage to the seating as a result of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. That was the final straw, because the team had deteriorated, the fans stopped showing up, the Raiders became a more popular team in L.A. (though they returned to Oakland after the '94 season), and worst of all, down in San Diego, the Chargers were in the Super Bowl following the '94 season.
The Dodgers should rename the team to reflect their local community. Like the LA Driveby's.
Or the LA Gangbangers!
The part at :41 gets me every time
Move the Tampa Bay Rays to Brooklyn
I would love to see that as a Brooklynite just like we now got the Nets, but the Yankees & Mets will try to block that move before talks even start.
i've been to LA and its has a beautiful downtown and a magnificent coastline...i respect brooklyn a lot though
Los 💩ngeles.
San Diego is far nicer.
Coastal and downtown.
Great documentary
By far, my favorite sports documentary of all time. Can't watch it without tearing up.
I could not imagine how much hurt the people of Brooklyn felt in their hearts when their beloved Dodgers left.
no you cannot and the hurt never went away
I lived in LA, 88-90.
Went to many, many games there.
Moved to NYC, Queens, Throgsneck.
1st thing I did was ride the J-train to Brooklyn, walked through the gardens to 5 points.
Thanks for sharing that..
such a renown team.. Cant understand why they left Brooklyn. the epitome of America.
Dodgers and Giants should have never left New York. What a shame. Such a story.
Torn down for a lousy apartment complex
, Jesus
Not just apartments. Subsidized housing.
Dodgers leaving broke my grandfathers heart.
best thing o'malley ever did is get the dodgers OUT brooklyn,failure to build the dome,crime,ebbetts was a smelly dump,nostalgia clouds realistic thinking.Los Angeles and moving there was a no brainer O'malley was right and I would of done the same,fact is he should of moved out sooner.still,this a terrific documentary.
I am a Brooklynite in my ❤️!!!!!
Bring Dodgers back to Brooklyn where it has been belong!! But been grew up in Los Angeles when i went to watch games lot besides stink place to smell as smog does! Hope Dodgers bring back to Brooklyn! Forget Los Angeles for sure! That why it name aka is lost angels! I'm sure that could grow strong in Brooklyn than Los Angeles! If that can bring back then they will come back and hold the place forever.. Go Brooklyn Dodgers!!
Wtf did u just say ? Lol
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I thought it was just me...
I agree they should go back
I wonder what would have happened if only one of the two teams had left? Or did both have to leave to unite the NL fans of NY?
the Dodgers did perform better in LA,but Brooklyn had better fans, if LA kept playing like that they would of left town
What's the song in the beginning?
"And then...they vanish."
Damn.
Honestly I fell Walter did not have any intent to stay. During the 50s and 60s stadiums moved away from the inner city,Atlantic and Flatbush was first a traffic nightmare and not we're stadiums were constructed in that era. A good site for that time would've been the Floyd Bennett Airfield near the Belt Parkway. Ample parking and right next to Moses Belt Parkway which would attract people from Staten Island and Long Island. That's my opinion.
Would not have attracted Staten Islanders. The Verrazano did not open until 1964.
@@brucegl4298
Well yeah, but the Dodgers left in 1958. No reason for SI folks to go to Bklyn anymore. Dodgers stick around, who knows?
That's when they were truly the Dodgers.
Dodgers won 5 titles in LA. We respect what they did in brooklyn but they're LA's team now.
the Dodgers can be loved by anyone, anywhere.
thewildboys the only thing Los Angeles about the Dodgers is the name of the city, everything else is Brooklyn’s.
Remember that
Dodgers will always be more associated with Brooklyn than L.A. no matter how many titles they win there. Just the way it is.
just some history for the dodger fans
Is it possible for MLB to expand or move a poor drawing team back to Brooklyn?
They could, but the Yankees & Mets will veto the plain over territory rights, plus the Mets have a minor league team playing in Brooklyn called the Brooklyn Cyclones who play at Maimonides Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn
What now.... Chicago Astros?
I hate LA for taking our team
Dodgers deserved better. Now they belong to hyper-tanned, beach ball-bouncing enter in the third inning and leave in the 7th Angelenos who have only a casual interest in baseball. Not to mention the thuggery in the outfield seats. What a shame.
Yes they
'ARE OUR LA TEAM NOW"
About 12 seconds on Brooklyn and the Dodgers before 1940. Did they not exist? Not good.
Kim Martin No kidding, dude! Oh, Dude, that blows my mind! How totally awesome of you to point that out, dude! That's like totally relevant to my objections, dude! Had I like, totally, known THAT, I would be like, so, that's cool, dude, because, the Dodgers have, like, been in LA since, like, 1958, dude, and who gives like, a fuck about the history of the team before that? Like, dude!
You have like, totally cool comprehension aptitudes, dude! Like, why would a video that purports to be a history of the Dodgers focus on 50 years of it's existence including the team's inception? Like no way, dude. If they HAD done that, I would be like, "Hey dude! No way!"
Thank you, dude.
1st pLAce if they belong in Brooklyn how come there in la?
Money
Dodgers shall always be from brooklyn,although they were taken from us from us .
Move Blue Jays to Brooklyn.
Leave my Dodgers alone.
Move the Dodger back. Leave my Blue Jays alone
The Dodgers were always from Brooklyn. The Blue Jays were always in Toronto. And LA has always SuckedSaltySeagullShit.
Just happy a REAL New Yorker said that to you, so sick of you out of state transplants invading our fair city, and then live here for 6 months and consider yourselves new yorkers because you work here but your hearts belong somewhere else
It's amazing how stupid Robert Moses was. He caused National League Baseball to leave New York and his highways destroyed the neighborhoods.
He was less a city planner than a destroyer of the city. My beloved Dodgers
belonged in Brooklyn. I am still a Dodger fan but it's not the same. However, I feel lucky that I grew up in Brooklyn and had the experience of falling in love with The Boys of Summer.
There's a team called the "Mets" you know. They play in the National League and in New York.
Robert Moses had nothing to do with it, period. Let me ask you a blunt question. Would your love of the Dodgers extended to seeing your taxes go through the roof to fund a corporate welfare project in which you the taxpayer would be responsible for 90% of the costs of relocating the businesses at Atlantic Avenue solely so Walter O'Malley could profit more? Well guess what, that was how the taxpayers felt then which is why none of them backed O'Malley's proposal. They didn't need Robert Moses to object because even all of Moses' political enemies knew it was a nutty idea that amounted to civic extortion. The man who deserves all the blame is O'Malley and no one else.
@@LEETCH_2
Psssh. Mets. 👈😆👎
America is a poorer place for the Dodgers having left Brooklyn.
I was born in 1949, and I have little memory of the Brooklyn Dodgers. I grew up a Mets fan. I went to a game in 1962, first time the Dodgers returned to New York. It was an SRO crown. "62 Mets were the worst team of all time. True story- Mets were losing 17-0, in the 4th inning, and it started to rain. Standing ovation for the rain. Of course, sun came out later. Polo Grounds was the worst dump of a stadium you ever saw, but the Mets became prosperous later. I'm 64, so you really have to be old to be a Brooklyn Dodger fan, that was even before my time.
I respect the Dodgers, but hate it when people refer to the Mets as a "cheap imitation" first of all the Mets were the first NYC team to draw 3 million fans in 1 year, not the Yankees. Secondly, the Mets were not "replacing" Brooklyn as they were in Queens and had their own identity from the start. Thirdly: Miracle Mets of '69 and the epic '86 comeback never happen if Brooklyn stays. The Mets now have existed longer than Brooklyn ever did and deserve respect because we have the BEST FANS in MLB.
It doesn't help the Mets effort to build their own identity when for too many years they had an owner who was hell-bent determined to turn them into Brooklyn Dodgers II from the design of the new stadium, to the over-emphasis on Dodger history over Mets history in its rotunda, and then there was that many year experiment of the Mets wearing those all-white unis instead of the traditional pinstripe because it made them look like the Dodgers. I was appalled that not once in the 1999 and 2000 postseasons (especially the Subway Series) that the Mets never wore their traditional home uni once (wearing the idiotic black tops when they weren't wearing the Dodger whites).
@@epaddon
Psssh. The Mets SuckSaltySeagullShit.
@@epaddon
The Mets don't have history.
They have hysteria.
They mentioned that Chavez Ravine was abandoned. It wasnt abandoned, the people of Chavez Ravine were forced out, ripped off and destroyed a community.
Luciano, Los Angeles began removing residents from Chavez Ravine as early as 1949. Years before the Dodgers considered moving to LA. They had a plan to built a massive housing project on the site. Once O'Malley considered LA, the city offered him the property and he took it. All those people would have been removed from their homes in Chavez Ravine even if they never decided to move here.
You wanna make an omelette you gotta break some eggs.
Whatever! L.A. didn't take your team! Robert Moses let them go! Quit blaming Walter O'Malley! He didn't want to leave!
a perfect documentary for a perfect time, for a perfect team....except for that horrible Sinatra song. He's wayyyy overrated.
funny, I was just thinking the same thing about Frank. I honestly think I could write and sing better songs, and I've never written a song nor am I much of a singer.
"the hot dogs and the beer"? give me a break. waaaaay to cheesy. What about family? the neighborhood? the people? the team?....so many other great topics to feed off of.....Effin Beer?...Come on Frankie.......Hell i'll write one.
that's because it wasn't from the heart.
man i'm watching again and that song is like nails across a chalkboard. Tom Waits would have written a better song....ten times better.
water o'male is a dush
Still hating after over 55 years or so? Gimme a break
DODGERS WORLD SERIES 2017......