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In 1899, most of the original old Baltimore Orioles NL stars from the legendary Maryland club which earlier won three consecutive championships in 1894–1895–1896, were moved to the Grays (Bridegrooms) After his removal as club president, Robinson returned to managing, and the club's performance rebounded somewhat. [28] Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball". 2006. Archived from the original on October 5, 2008 . Retrieved 2008-09-22.

The annual ritual of building excitement, followed in the end by disappointment, became a common pattern to the long suffering fans, and "Wait ’til next year!" became an unofficial Dodger slogan. I think the difference in terms of separation in the sort of baseball consciousness between the two franchises, in as much as there was one,” McGee said, “probably came about during the ’60s, after the Giants started to fade, and the Dodgers still had competitive teams through the ’70s.”Prince, Carl E. (2011). Brooklyn's Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947–1957. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195115789.001.0001. ISBN 9780195115789. The Giants won the 1905, 1921, ’22 and ’33 World Series and lost several others. The Dodgers, meanwhile, were empty-handed, year after year after — until their only title in New York, in 1955. The Dodgers were the occupants of the mantle that the Mets would later take up: the lovable loser. Although the Dodgers lost the World Series to the Yankees in 1956 during which the Yankees pitcher Don Larsen pitched the only World Series perfect game in baseball history and the only post-season no-hitter for the next 54 years, it hardly seemed to matter. Brooklyn fans had their memory of triumph, and soon that was all they were left with – a victory that was remembered decades later in the Billy Joel single " We Didn't Start the Fire", which included the line, "Brooklyn's got a winning team." The Giants didn’t “have what’s building in Brooklyn as far as, ‘Wait’ Til Next Year,'” Langill said. “It really led to a crescendo with the ’55 championship.”

Harvey Weinberg, a 76-year-old New York Giants fan born in the Bronx, believes some of the sentimentality toward the Brooklyn Dodgers can be found in the team name itself. Goldstein, Richard (1991). Superstars and Screwballs: 100 Years of Brooklyn Baseball. New York: Dutton.In 1934, Giants manager Bill Terry asked whether the Dodgers were even still in the league. The Giants carried a feeling of superiority that the Dodgers, for the longest time, never could.

Meanwhile, non-stop transcontinental airline travel had become routine during the years since the Second World War. Teams were no longer bound by much slower railroad infrastructure. Because of advances in civil aviation, it became possible to locate teams farther apart – as far west as California – while maintaining the same busy game schedules. I’ve never thought about this before, but I can’t tell you off the top of my head somebody that’s going to wax nostalgic about the New York Giants, as far as somebody you identify (as),’ Oh, he was the diehard Giants fan,'” Dodgers historian Mark Langill said. A 2007 HBO film, Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush, is a documentary covering the Dodgers history from early days to the beginning of the Los Angeles era. In the film, the story is related that O'Malley was so hated by Brooklyn Dodger fans after the move to California, that it was said: "If you asked a Brooklyn Dodger fan, if you had a gun with only two bullets in it and were in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and O'Malley, who would you shoot? The answer: O'Malley, twice!"Meanwhile, Giants owner Horace Stoneham was having similar difficulty finding a replacement for his team's antiquated home stadium, the Polo Grounds. Stoneham was considering moving the Giants to Minneapolis, but was persuaded instead to move them to San Francisco, ensuring that the Dodgers had a National League rival closer than St. Louis. So the two arch-rival teams, the Dodgers and Giants, moved out to the West Coast together after the 1957 season. Bernado, Leonard; Weiss, Jennifer (2006). Brooklyn By Name: From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Flatbush Avenue, And From Ebbets Field To Williamsburg. New York: New York University Press. p.81. When Los Angeles officials attended the 1956 World Series looking to entice a team to move there, they were not even thinking of the Dodgers. Their original target had been the Washington Senators franchise, which eventually moved to Bloomington, Minnesota to become the Minnesota Twins in 1961. At the same time, O'Malley was looking for a contingency in case Moses and other New York politicians refused to let him build the Brooklyn stadium he wanted, and sent word to the Los Angeles officials that he was interested in talking. Los Angeles offered him what New York did not: a chance to buy land somewhat suitable for building a ballpark, and the chance to own that ballpark, giving him complete control over all its revenue streams. At the same time, the National League was not willing to approve the Dodgers' move unless O'Malley found a second team willing to join them out west, largely out of concern for travel costs. [38] When you say ‘New York,’ it could be New York City, it could be New York State,” Weinberg said. “But when you say ‘Brooklyn,’ it’s a defined, confined geographical area.” Okrent, Daniel (1988). The Ultimate Baseball Book. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p.352. ISBN 0395361451.

Everyone knew the Giants were dead in New York. They had a whole year to accept it, while (Walter) O’Malley’s decision to move to LA seemed rushed, even though he had been dissatisfied with Ebbets Field for a long time.” Borzi, Pat (June 17, 2005). "The Giants Almost Headed Not Quite So Far West". The New York Times . Retrieved February 12, 2018. The next day, according to Johnson, San Francisco officials met with Stoneham. By then the Dodgers were looking hard at Los Angeles. O'Malley needed the Giants because National League owners, concerned about travel costs, would not approve only one team going across the country. Especially the stadium,” said Mintz, whose group has regular video meetings, and more than 2,500 followers on Facebook. “It’s always, ‘Ebbets Field was this.’ And then the Mets build a duplicate of it basically, and then they sit there and tell you, ‘Well, the green seats (at Citi Field) are for the Polo Grounds.’ The Giants, I think in New York as the years went by, probably considered themselves third-class citizens behind the Yankees and Dodgers.” Wants More About the Brooklyn Team and Less About Ward". Brooklyn Eagle. 21 April 1892 . Retrieved 5 November 2015. While the Dodgers generally enjoyed success during this period, in 1951 they fell victim to one of the largest collapses in the history of baseball. [33] On August 11, 1951, Brooklyn led the National League by an enormous 13 + 1⁄ 2 games over their archrivals, the Giants. While the Dodgers went 26–22 from that time until the end of the season, the Giants went on an absolute tear, winning an amazing 37 of their last 44 games, including their last seven in a row. At the end of the season the Dodgers and the Giants were tied for first place, forcing a three-game playoff for the pennant.Smith, H. Allen; Smith, Ira L. (1951). Three Men on Third. Halcottsville, NY: Breakaway Books. p.17. ISBN 1-891369-15-6 . Retrieved February 2, 2011. [ permanent dead link]