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...first time since The Exodus, professional baseball has returned. The New York Mets recently moved their Single-A minor league affiliate to a new Coney Island facility and renamed it the Brooklyn Cyclones. Memories of the Dodgers have prompted an incredibly warm reception for the low-level club. Three-fourths of the season sold out in three weeks. Cyclones merchandise is flying off shelves all over the region. Brooklyn fans are calling up local sports radio programs to curse the name of Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers owner who orchestrated the infamous move. The Borough of Churches seems...
...about how different life would have been as a Dodger fan instead of a Mets fan (probably a lot better this summer). I wonder what it would have been like to walk a few blocks to the stadium, and how a tradition as pure as that of baseball in Brooklyn would have survived the various corrupting influences of modern professional sport. I wonder if the days of walking down Flatbush Avenue and hearing Dodger broadcasts blaring from a million windows would have lasted through those four lost decades. Aging fans now exult at the sight of a Brooklyn ballpark...
...must do when thinking about the Dodgers, I wonder about the greater life of the borough. The Dodgers had been a unifying force for Brooklyn at several stages of its history—from its consolidation into Greater New York in the 1890s to the civil rights movement and Robinson’s smashing of the color barrier. Who knows what else the Dodgers could have steered Brooklyn through? Who’s to say that we wouldn’t be better, happier people with Ebbets Field still standing...
...Brooklyn, Brooklyn, I’m sick of hearing it,” legendary sportswriter Jimmy Cannon wrote in the New York Post in 1952. “The way they talk, you think it was a whole country with an army and a king or something. All they got is a ball club.” Maybe Cannon was right, but it couldn’t have been just any ball club. Not with the way the borough’s identity vanished in ’57 and the way the current revival has moved some aging baby...
...Brooklyn...