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Goldblatt, Andrew (3 June 2003). The Giants and the Dodgers: Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry. McFarland. ISBN 9780786416400– via Google Books. Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball". 2006. Archived from the original on October 5, 2008 . Retrieved 2008-09-22. After his removal as club president, Robinson returned to managing, and the club's performance rebounded somewhat. [28]

But to Thorn, the teams were more defined by the sentiment attached to them rather than specific geographic location. The Giants won the 1905, 1921, ’22 and ’33 World Series and lost several others. The Dodgers, meanwhile, were empty-handed, year after year after — until their only title in New York, in 1955. The Dodgers were the occupants of the mantle that the Mets would later take up: the lovable loser. In longer timelines beyond relocation, the different narrative arcs of the teams may have shaped their memories differently. Early in the 20th century, the Giants were a dominant force. Vidmer, Richards (August 16, 1926). "Robins in Form, Win Two in Day - Take Double-Header From the Braves by 4 to 2 and 11 to 3 Before Starting West – Vance Pitches the Opener – Jess Barnes Keeps Up Victory Pace In Second – Batsmen Rouse From Their Slump". The New York Times. p.11 . Retrieved 11 September 2016. Wants More About the Brooklyn Team and Less About Ward". Brooklyn Eagle. 21 April 1892 . Retrieved 5 November 2015.

Brown, Peter Jensen (13 April 2014). "Rail Service to Eastern Park Brooklyn". Early Sports 'n Pop-Culture Blog . Retrieved 13 June 2014. a b Brown, Peter Jensen (7 April 2014). "The Grim Reality of the Trolley Dodgers". Early Sports 'n Pop-Culture Blog . Retrieved 13 June 2014. Although the Dodgers lost the World Series to the Yankees in 1956 during which the Yankees pitcher Don Larsen pitched the only World Series perfect game in baseball history and the only post-season no-hitter for the next 54 years, it hardly seemed to matter. Brooklyn fans had their memory of triumph, and soon that was all they were left with – a victory that was remembered decades later in the Billy Joel single " We Didn't Start the Fire", which included the line, "Brooklyn's got a winning team."

Everyone knew the Giants were dead in New York. They had a whole year to accept it, while (Walter) O’Malley’s decision to move to LA seemed rushed, even though he had been dissatisfied with Ebbets Field for a long time.” World Series: Rare, Never-Seen". LIFE.com. Archived from the original on 2010-10-27 . Retrieved 2010-10-28. The Dodgers made the World Series again in 1956, too. They were reaching new peaks, and then they were gone.Gary Mintz, organizer of the New York Giants Preservation Society, said that at times, the Giants’ legacy in New York absolutely feels pushed aside relative to the Dodgers’. The Giants didn’t “have what’s building in Brooklyn as far as, ‘Wait’ Til Next Year,'” Langill said. “It really led to a crescendo with the ’55 championship.”

But being Broadway’s flame was not enough to widely sustain the Giants’ legacy. Empirically, major figures of subsequent generations have written and spoken more about the Dodgers. Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a book about them. Larry King was a Dodgers fan. Fred Wilpon, the former Mets owner, designed Citi Field as an homage to the Dodgers’ old home, Ebbets Field, not the Giants’ Polo Grounds of Manhattan. a b Lowry, Philip J. (2006). Green Cathedrals. New York: Walker and Company. p.35. ISBN 978-0-8027-1562-3 . Retrieved 14 September 2016. Meanwhile, Giants owner Horace Stoneham was having similar difficulty finding a replacement for his team's antiquated home stadium, the Polo Grounds. Stoneham was considering moving the Giants to Minneapolis, but was persuaded instead to move them to San Francisco, ensuring that the Dodgers had a National League rival closer than St. Louis. So the two arch-rival teams, the Dodgers and Giants, moved out to the West Coast together after the 1957 season. Going to the Polo Grounds always felt dark, always felt bleak: 155th and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, and the beautiful Yankee Stadium across the bridge,” King said. “The Polo Grounds was a weird place.” Smith, H. Allen; Smith, Ira L. (1951). Three Men on Third. Halcottsville, NY: Breakaway Books. p.17. ISBN 1-891369-15-6 . Retrieved February 2, 2011. [ permanent dead link]

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In 1899, most of the original old Baltimore Orioles NL stars from the legendary Maryland club which earlier won three consecutive championships in 1894–1895–1896, were moved to the Grays (Bridegrooms) The first major-league baseball game to be televised was Brooklyn's 6–1 victory over Cincinnati at Ebbets Field on August 26, 1939. Batting helmets were introduced to Major League Baseball by the Dodgers in 1941. A 2007 HBO film, Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush, is a documentary covering the Dodgers history from early days to the beginning of the Los Angeles era. In the film, the story is related that O'Malley was so hated by Brooklyn Dodger fans after the move to California, that it was said: "If you asked a Brooklyn Dodger fan, if you had a gun with only two bullets in it and were in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and O'Malley, who would you shoot? The answer: O'Malley, twice!"

Harvey Weinberg, a 76-year-old New York Giants fan born in the Bronx, believes some of the sentimentality toward the Brooklyn Dodgers can be found in the team name itself. While the Dodgers generally enjoyed success during this period, in 1951 they fell victim to one of the largest collapses in the history of baseball. [33] On August 11, 1951, Brooklyn led the National League by an enormous 13 + 1⁄ 2 games over their archrivals, the Giants. While the Dodgers went 26–22 from that time until the end of the season, the Giants went on an absolute tear, winning an amazing 37 of their last 44 games, including their last seven in a row. At the end of the season the Dodgers and the Giants were tied for first place, forcing a three-game playoff for the pennant. In 1934, Giants manager Bill Terry asked whether the Dodgers were even still in the league. The Giants carried a feeling of superiority that the Dodgers, for the longest time, never could. Prince, Carl E. (2011). Brooklyn's Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947–1957. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195115789.001.0001. ISBN 9780195115789. Many times over the years, Carl Erskine has been asked about the staying power of his Brooklyn Dodgers. He’s always settled on the winner-gone-too-soon theory. But what about the other guys across town?The National League (NL) replaced the NAPBBP in 1876 and granted exclusive territories to its eight members, excluding the Atlantics in favor of the Mutual Club of New York who had shared home grounds with the Atlantics. When the Mutuals were expelled by the league, the Hartford club moved in, the press dubbing them The Brooklyn Hartfords, [3] and played its home games at Union Grounds in 1877 before disbanding. Borzi, Pat (June 17, 2005). "The Giants Almost Headed Not Quite So Far West". The New York Times . Retrieved February 12, 2018. The next day, according to Johnson, San Francisco officials met with Stoneham. By then the Dodgers were looking hard at Los Angeles. O'Malley needed the Giants because National League owners, concerned about travel costs, would not approve only one team going across the country.