Too late, they’re already getting a new stadium in Queens, right next to Shea.
I still can’t get over the fact that the Yankees are building a new stadium. Yankess Stadium should be declared a national monument. And I live in Philly!
Yeah, Brooklyn got the shaft when the Dodgers left, but it was inevitable...SOMEONE was going to jump to the lucrative, untapped California baseball market. Too bad it wasn’t the Phillies.....
Citi Field, as I noted above.
BTW, the parcel where Shea and Citi Field sit is the "nice parcel of land" in Queens that Robert Moses offered O'Malley. And the site in Brooklyn that O'Malley had his eye on, at Atlantic and Flatbush, is slated to be the site of a enw basketball arena for teh New Jersey Nets.
Well, either the A's of the Phils were going. Had it been the Phils who moved, Baltimore would probably not have gotten into the AL. The Browns had previously flirted with moving to LA. Who knows?
BTW, when the leagues were first expanding, O'Malley threatened to use territorial rights to keep the American League out of LA. But the Yankees stepped forward and said that if he tried, they would invoke thier rights and keep the National League out of New York. O'Malley backed down.
And it was O'Malley who recruited Ray Kroc of McDonald's to buy the San Diego Padres and keep them from moving to Washington.