Already planning ahead

Walter O'Malley announces 67 years ago today his Brooklyn Dodgers could play as many 10 exhibition games in California in 1958.

Instead, the Dodgers' owner abandons Brooklyn and Ebbets Field after the 1957 season and moves his team to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers have played ever since.

Somewhere in Brooklyn today somebody is waiting for the Dodgers to come home.

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