Intro -- Contents -- 1. Brooklyn's Place in the New York Game -- 2. Postwar Challenges and the Beginning of the O'Malley Era -- 3. Robert Moses and the Atlantic-Flatbush Proposal -- 4. An Elusive Championship -- 5. Los Angeles: An Overture from the Coast -- 6. New York: Endgame in Brooklyn -- 7. Proposition B -- 8. Due Process and Another Championship -- 9. Was the Move Justified? -- Appendix A. The Chavez Ravine Agreement -- Appendix B. The Dodgers' Record in Los Angeles -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
For many New Yorkers, the removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers--perhaps the most popular baseball team of all time--to Los Angeles in 1957 remains one of the most traumatic events since World War II. Sullivan's controversial reassessment of this event shifts responsibility for the move onto the local governmental maneuverings that occurred on both sides of the continent. Set against a backdrop of sporting passion and rivalry, and appearing over thirty years after the Dodgers' last season in Brooklyn, this engrossing book offers new insights into the power struggle existing in the nation's two largest cities.