When Brooklyn Lost the Dodgers

Why did the beloved New York baseball team head West in 1958?

1889 Brooklyn Base Ball Club (nicknamed “Bridegrooms”). Gardner & Co. (Life time: 1889), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Brooklyn, New York was home to one of the most beloved teams in the game of American baseball — the Brooklyn Dodgers. But in 1958, the unthinkable happened when the long-standing Brooklyn Dodgers moved to the West Coast to become the Los Angeles Dodgers. The story of why that happened is a baseball legend…