Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Walter O'Malley..

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My recap of the ESPN Classic show's segment on Walter O'Malley's moving the Dodgers.

5. Westward expansion was inevitable. The New York Giants had just moved to San Francisco. If the Dodgers didn't move into the untapped LA market, another team certainly would have.

4. Bill Levitt's cookie cutter suburban housing led to the "White Flight" from Brooklyn to Long Island. Plus, Ebetts Field only had 750 parking spaces, so staying there was economically inviable.

3. The successful relocation of the Braves to Milwaukee started the trend of moving teams to better markets.

2. The city of Los Angeles gave O'Malley 300 acres to build a ballpark. The city has not done the same for the return of an NFL team.

1. Robert Moses- The New York developer czar refused to allow O'Malley to build a domed stadium in downtown Brooklyn and thought O'Malley was bluffing about moving the team.

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Good thing I summarized a recap. Bastages at wikipedia removed everything about the series.