The recently unfrozen Captain America finds out that the Brooklyn Dodgers have moved (Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #5; November 1998)

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  1. i wish i’d been around for 3-team cities. having the yankees, dodgers, AND the giants (all extremely strong teams) all right there sounds amazing as a fan.

  7. demolished with a wrecking ball painted to look like a baseball just to really twist the knife

  9. At least they’re still a rag tag stable of lovable everymen dubbed Dem Bums though, right?

  11. The Dodgers playing in Brooklyn is unlike anything in major league baseball today. The extent to which the community was bonded with its beloved team and players was astounding.

  13. Can you fucking imagine? The world you know is completely gone. You are a man out of time. But baseball is still here! “Yeah, literally everything else has changed, but I can go and grab a bleacher seat in Ebbets. Sure, it will probably be more than a quarter now, but baseball doesn’t change that much. Hot dog and a score card and at least I can ground myself in something… The fuck you just say?” *Removes mask, puts down shield, and walks away to murder O’Malley.*

  17. Ebbets Field was turned into housing, and Chavez Ravine, which was supposed to be housing, was turned into a ballpark+other stuff.

  20. My gf’s Brooklyn-born mom remembers grown men crying in the streets when they left. I don’t live too far away from the site and stop by the Jackie Robinson plaque every one in a while

  22. I understand the feeling of wanting to go back using a time machine but a lot of these places were not in a good shape when they closed and shaky history with a lot of them. Griffith’s stadium was segregated in a black neighborhood in NW. Forbes had drainage issues where the mound was soaked but the infield was rock hard. Shibe/Connie Mack was falling apart, mouse-infested, and unloved.

    The character of these places is cool and it’s a shame of what replaced many of them with the concrete multipurpose ash trays but there is a reason why many of them closed down. Fenway and Wrigley have spent millions to keep them modern and in the mid 1950s, they didn’t have the money for that.

  23. At least you got the chance to see them win a World Series before… uh… oh, man. My bad.

  26. Tying this back to WWII and Captain America, there is a theory that Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor indirectly resulted in the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to Los Angeles.

    https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever

    MLB.com has an article saying that in 1941 the St. Louis Browns were looking for a new home, and were looking for approval to move to Los Angeles. Word was that they were confident other owners would approve.

    The formal vote was scheduled for… wait for it… Monday, December 8th, 1941. After the December 7th attacks, the vote was held that Monday, but the other owners voted it down – not the right time for a move like that.

    With the Browns staying in St. Louis until the early 1950s, Los Angeles stayed available for Walter O’Malley to do one of the most dastardly things in sports history.

    Fuck Walter O’Malley
    Fuck Robert Moses
    Fuck Hideki Tojo
    Fuck John Fisher, too

  28. Lol yeah time moves forward for us all doesn’t it. Sorry Cap, they’ve won significantly more titles though since leaving so there’s that at least 

  33. That plaque is really there, the buildings are significantly shittier than illustrated here

  36. Tony Stark’s last words in at least one timeline – *But hey…… at least New York still has the Yankees!*

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