Trying to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn

New York City officials agree 67 years ago today to commission a $25,000 survey regarding the Brooklyn Dodgers’ proposal for a new stadium in the borough.

They should spend the money elsewhere as Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley eventually moves his team westward to Los Angeles instead of building a domed stadium (seen here in a cutaway drawing) that O’Malley has been shopping to politicians.

O’Malley tells the politicians that to stay in Brooklyn, the Dodgers want a site that now is home to the Barclays Center.

Instead, the Dodgers spend only one more season in Brooklyn’s hallowed Ebbets Field before O’Malley moves them to southern California, where he pays pennies on the dollars for the Chavez Ravine property the Dodgers still call home today.

Walter O’Malley