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Old 08-20-2006, 02:32 PM   #1049
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Originally Posted by ukhotstove
Without a doubt if the Dodgers had stayed in Brooklyn it would be them.
The reason the Dodgers had to leave Brooklyn is a long story. But it centers around a man named Robert Moses..perhaps the most interesting man ever in American public life. he essentially used emminant domain to foreclose o the land Ebbets Field occupied to build a public housing project.

The Dodgers then came to LA and the city forcibly removed hundreds of mexican immigrants in Chavez Ravine to build the stadium

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