Glory Days - New York Baseball 1947-1957

(from left) Thomas Goodfellow, President of the Long Island Railroad; Robert Moses, Commissioner, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority; Bernard Gimble, President, New York City Convention Bureau; Walter O'Malley; and John McGrath, Attorney for the Committee studying the site for a new stadium in Brooklyn, with a model of a proposed "all weather" stadium, February 28, 1956

There was much behind-the-scenes negotiating over whether the Dodgers would build a new stadium in Brooklyn. Owner Walter O'Malley wanted a stadium on Atlantic Avenue at the Long Island Railroad yards (today destined for the proposed Nets Stadium). City planner Robert Moses deemed this too disruptive and proposed a ballpark in Flushing Meadow Park instead, an idea that O'Malley rejected, in favor of pressing his case for a new ballpark in Brooklyn. Walter O'Malley envisioned a new domed stadium and he corresponded with architects Buckminster Fuller and Eero Saarinen for their advice.

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The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-1957 was on view at the Museum of the City of New York from June 27 to December 31, 2007.