![]() ![]() "When you're eight years old, you don't give a damn about business," says Charley Steiner, a Brooklyn native and current Dodgers announcer. ![]() Ghosts shows that O'Malley fought to keep the team in Brooklyn, but many still see him as the villain. After the Dodgers left, says actor Louis Gossett Jr., who is from Coney Island, "there was nothing for everybody to homogeneously identify with." came along with a better offer, O'Malley uprooted the club that helped give three million Brooklynites an identity long after the once independent municipality joined New York City. ![]() But New York officials balked, preferring that a new park be built in Queens. Though-like Ken Burns's Civil War series-it occasionally displays the overwrought sentimentality and nostalgia that often comes in the reckoning of defeat, the documentary has a sensitive eye for the political, social and economic changes that swept postwar America.Īs white, middle-class fans streamed out of Brooklyn for the Long Island suburbs in the 1940s and '50s, Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley believed the key to luring them back for baseball was to build a domed stadium in Brooklyn. Da Bums' decline and departure is told in HBO's Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush. ![]()
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