Last Out at Ebbetts Field

On September 24, 1957, before a crowd of only 6,702 fans, the last game is played at Ebbets Field. The last
batter, Bob Skinner, grounds out, Don Zimmer to Gil Hodges, to give the 5 hit, 2-0 victory to Danny McDevitt,
a member of the 1952 Greenwood Dodgers of the Cotton States League.
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[loungelizard5000]

They hated O'Mally and wanted to say F-YOU by not showing up. This is all common knowledge to any real baseball fan.

[avengemm9dog]

Because people in Brooklyn did not want to pay money to a team that was going to move to Los Angeles.

[Konatablob]

@1109Woodsie lol, that's a good one

[1109Woodsie]

@idlefonzo201 It was because of the nick name given to young men trying to escape the draft... "Draft Dodgers" duh

[michael11895]

Fuck Los Angeles i like DODGERS in BROOKLYN good old times 42 =)

[charliepoveromo]

KEEP THE DODGERS IN BROOKLYN!

[krezzykrezz]

@alonenjersey Thanks. I knew there was no way that voice was Vin Scully.

[therealjoebloggs]

The irony, of course, is that 40 years later, Los Angeles would lose both NFL teams at one stroke. On the other hand, the fans in LA could basically give two figs for the NFL, being first and foremost a USC town

[524pmdnyc]

@PriceRight89 Absolutely true. Moses ended the Dodger days in Brooklyn, even if O'malley took the heat

[tomitstube]

new york lost two teams that year. it must have felt like armageddon.

you aren't the only ones, almost every city has been screwed over by private owners. now a days the greedy mf's hold cities and fans hostage for public money. millions in public money needed for teachers. sanitation, and infrastructure sucked off to subsidize sports owners.  new stadiums payed for by the tax payers, but owned and used as cash cows by private owners.

the truth is, you're better off letting them go.

[PriceRight89]

I wouldn't pin the entire blame on O'Malley. He had cleared land for other ballparks in Brooklyn, including plans for a retractable roof stadium, but Robert Moses wouldn't allow it, offering land in Flushing Meadows in Queens instead. When Los Angeles offered what Moses and Brooklyn couldn't, he packed up the team and left. O'Malley didn't end the Brooklyn Dodgers era, Robert Moses did.

[Frank461980]

There was a joke in Brooklyn that if Hitler, Stalin and O'Mally were in the same room, and you had only two bullets left-who do you shoot?

The answer: O'Mally-twice.