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Changes For Baseball Teams Between 1957 And 1958

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Can a choice made break the hearts of some and excite others? Major changes for baseball teams in 1957 and 1958 did exactly that. In 1958, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants moved to California, fans and teams were no longer the same, and new stadiums began construction. The home field of the Brooklyn Dodgers was Ebbets Field. During the late 1940’s and the early 1950’s, it became evident that Ebbets Field was no longer a convenient place for the Dodgers to play. The structure was becoming insubstantial, and the plumbing was poor. The confined aisles and seating capacity of only 32,000 were not the great aspects a baseball stadium was supposed to have. The location was also unsuitable, located way off of major roads. The parking was …show more content…

Because of this, President of the team Walter O’Malley wanted to have a new stadium built for the team in Brooklyn. It got to the point where in 1957, he had been trying for a few years, and no progress had been made. City Planner Robert Moses just would not accept his plans. O’Malley was to the point where he started making threats to move the team out of Brooklyn. Leaders like New York Mayor Robert Wagner and many other city officials didn’t see these threats as serious, so when Los Angeles took O’Malley up and offered to build the team a new stadium located at Chavez Ravine, people like Moses and Wagner finally started to turn a little more attention towards the issue. Their weak offer of building a stadium at the World’s Fair Grounds in Queens was to no avail. It was clear at this point to O’Malley that keeping the team in Brooklyn as he’d originally planned was an unattainable dream. Much to the dismay of the team’s fans in Brooklyn, O’Malley decided he had to make the poignant choice to move the team across the country (Brooklyn Dodgers). In order to make this move, baseball owners said that both the Dodgers and the New York Giants would have to move to California, with the Giants moving to San Francisco (Baseball …show more content…

Those two things were Dodger Stadium and Candlestick Park. Dodger stadium is the stadium that was built for the Dodgers in Los Angeles. Dodger Stadium, out of all currently used baseball parks in Major League Baseball, is the third oldest. The stadium is very scenic, being carved into the hillside of Chavez Ravine. To the south, it overlooks downtown LA, and to the north, it overlooks the San Gabriel mountains. The stadium was built with 56,000 seats. Walter O’Malley and Emil Praeger, a civil engineer and architect based from New York, were the designers. There are 21 terrace entrances on 6 separate seating levels. There is an area of parking adjacent to each section of seating’s entrance. A total of 16,000 parking spots are on-site. The Dodgers finally played on their new field on Opening Day in 1962-April 10. Until Dodger Stadium was ready, the team played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Stadium Info). As for the Giants, Candlestick Park was their new field. The stadium was nicknamed “The Stick” and was used for 38 seasons. The team played at Seals Stadium until Candlestick Park was finished. They’d been hoping to use the stadium in 1959, but due to some complications, it was put off a year. The stadium was built with 42,553 seats. Two main decks made up the grandstand. In right center field, there was a little section of bleachers. The Giants finally got to play their first game

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