The Brooklyn Dodgers Move to Los Angeles
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Business and Commerce Series
- Categories: Economics, Sports
- Subcategories: Business
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Los Angeles
- Date: 1957-1958
Article abstract: By moving a profitable franchise from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, the Dodgers helped to establish professional sports on a truly national basis.
Summary of Event
It was once fashionable to teach American history in terms of Horace Greeley’s nineteenth century aphorism urging young men to “go West.” Although Americans did so, and indeed had done so since the original English settlements along the Atlantic Coast, professional sports were slow to follow suit.
The most attractive western magnet has traditionally been California....
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