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Saturday, September 29, 2007 |
Fifty Years Ago Today: The End Of The Brooklyn Dodgers
Fifty years ago today, the Dodgers lost their final game as Brooklyn to the Phillies 2-1, eleven games back of the red-hot 95-59 Milwaukee Braves; no other NL team that year even got to 90 wins. The 1957 team spent only five days in first place, once on June 8 and never thereafter. The team's core was aging, Jackie Robinson having retired in the offseason. Walter Alston, in his fourth year of running the club and fresh off two pennants and Brooklyn's only title, didn't have enough horses to compete anymore. The glory that was the Dodgers just evaporated, according to Glenn Stout's The Dodgers:
There was no yearlong celebration of what was about to pass, no long good-bye, just a slow, accumulating chill. Dodger fans stood on the porch and watched their ballclub slowly back up the truck. Some complained, wrote letters, signed petitions, or formed committees, but most just watched in silence, angry, and slowly drifted away. It had always been Brooklyn against the world, hadn't it? Well, guess what? The world won. Didn't it always?The Dodgers had given up; on September 1, they put Sal Maglie on waivers. The Yankees picked him up for their stretch drive.
Tom Singer reviewed starter Danny McDevitt's 2-0 victory over the Pirates in the last game played at Ebbets Field. Here's another piece in time to honor the baseball dead, Jack O'Connell's tribute to the great move west. Finally, not to be forgotten in all the Brooklynalia is the recollection that the Giants used to play in New York, too.
Labels: dodgers, giants, history
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