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The Brooklyn Dodgers played their final game at Ebbets Field on September 24, 1957, which the Dodgers won 2–0 over the Pittsburgh Pirates. On April 18, 1958 , the Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in L.A., defeating the former New York and newly moved and renamed San Francisco Giants , 6–5, before 78,672 fans at the Los Angeles ...
Following the 1957 Major League Baseball season, he moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles. [8] For years O'Malley had tried to secure a site for a new stadium for the Dodgers in Brooklyn to no avail. The Dodgers' home at the time, Ebbets Field, was old and obsolete. Despite the Dodgers dominating the league, attendance at Ebbets Field dwindled ...
Brooklyn Dodgers officials and employees pose in front of the club's plane at La Guardia in New York, before taking off for Los Angeles on October 23, 1957. - AP.
Brooklyn Dodgers [30] NL 1884 1957 74 Los Angeles Dodgers: Los Angeles Dodgers: 13 1 Declining attendance and desire for a new ballpark [31] Washington Senators ^ [32] AL 1901 1960 60 Minnesota Twins: Minnesota Twins: 3 1 Poor attendance [33] Milwaukee Braves ^ [23] NL 1953 1965 13 Atlanta Braves: Atlanta Braves: 2 1
From 1953 to 1955, three franchises were relocated, all of which had been in markets with two or more teams. Prior to the 1958 season, the two New York City teams in the NL, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, moved westward; the Dodgers relocated to Los Angeles, while San Francisco became the new home of the Giants. [1]
The Dodgers leave Brooklyn, and Koufax, Jackson and Steinbrenner enter the rivalry. After the Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1957, the rivalry cooled until 1963 when it held a coast-to-coast ...
Brooklyn Dodgers (1946–1948) Brooklyn Eagles (1935) Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn , New York . It is mainly known for having been the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team of the National League (1913–1957).
In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles despite the Dodgers being the second most profitable team in baseball from 1946 to 1956, and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Kansas City ...