If Moses had Given O'Malley the land he wanted in Brooklyn, the Dodgers would have probably never moved. Robert Moses was the true vilain in this play.
Chavez Ravine had been cleared out before O'Malley asked for it. But he was seen as the bad guy in LA for years, with the Mexican-American people in LA staying away until Fernandomania came about in 1981.

Thanks for posting this. Growing up in the '70s as a Mets fan, NY's Dodgers/Giants era was part our lore. I wasn't around in '57, but 50 years ago middle aged people remembered this well, and many of the retired players were always showing up. It's too bad there's not more on the Internet. It's a great story, and it's been largely forgotten. I also like your including O'Malley's fight for the Chavez Ravine location. That's a chapter that is usually left out.

Robert Moses was the main reason for the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn. No one will convince me otherwise.

Great video capped with Bartolo made it epic!

As a SF Native whose family has been here since the Gold Rush, I’m happy for the move. Many wonderful memories at Candlestick and Pac Bell

We should mention the Braves moving to Milwaukee and immediately drawing more than a million fan in year 1 probably expedited the Dodgers and Giants west as well.

I loved the video, please keep them coming

6:55 Watch Willie Mays clean out a dude when running to the clubhouse

Great video Thanks Brother 👍 ✌️

Will you do one on the COntential League

I love the dedication of both New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers fans, after their teams left, they refused to root for the New York Yankees, which lead to the creation of the New York Mets, and now former Giants and Dodgers fans, once bidder rivals, now root for the same team.

At 7:02 they started fighting over a base with that one guy snatching it and that other guy running after him. It's in the middle of the screen.

One thing I noticed, the angels have to rely on someone that sings louder than the ground most of the time

Chavez ravine was forced removal in early 1950s. AT LEAST 5-6 years before O'Malley decided he wanted to go to LA. The Dodgers had NOTHING to do with the Chavez Ravine removal

Wasn't just '"...balancing things out..." other NL owners wanted more of the cut of ticket money from Dodgers home games to offset higher
travel cost to west coast. Before 1953 most road trip travel could be handled by train, but with west coast added air travel was only option -
with additional cost. BTW - Braves were 'making money' the first year in Milwaukee 1953 thru end of the decade.
O'Malley talked Stoneham into SF as a way of keeping the 'rivalry' and also not losing more income to other owners.  
From their attendance high mark of 1.8m in '47 till they left, Dodgers attendance would drop (w/occasional one-year spikes) due to their base moving
out of Brooklyn/lack of parking/aging ballpark.  O'Malley saw what was happening in Milwaukee and knew he could not keep up at Ebbets.
He sold the ballpark/land to developer Marvin Kratter in 10/1956 creating more pressure for a new location.
The main point of a new ballpark was the location - which you didn't mention.  He wanted the Atlantic Ave. & Flatbush Ave where the Barclays
Center is now.  A location that has many transit options - 7 subway lines for customers to arrive from many different parts of Manhattan and
Brooklyn plus the LIRR to take fans home to Long Island after a game. He knew that this was the only way to survive in Brooklyn.  Moses and
NYC were asked to use 'eminent domain' statutes to acquire the land but that was not an accepted process then (as it is now) and Moses was
dead set on creating a new 'World's Fair' in Flushing and needed a stadium to anchor the scheme.  Robert Cairo's book 'The Power Broker' covers
this thoroughly.
The Eddie Grant memorial plaque wasn't found for decades.  You should have mentioned that the Pirates closed Ebbets first on 9/24 followed by
2 off days then closed the schedule and Polo Grounds 9/29.  Pirates opened the Mets era at PG 4/13/62.
What really started the changes in MLB was the Braves moving to Milwaukee and immediate financial success in 1953.

Paternal grandfather grew up a giants fan going to games at the polo grounds. When the Giants moved he became a Yankee fan. Maternal grandfather was an immigrant to Brooklyn and a big Dodgers fan. When the Dodgers moved he gave up on baseball since it abandoned him.

The spot Walter O’Malley wanted to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn would give him access to highways, the subway and a Long Island rail road station. Robert Moses said no it’s Flushing or nothing. The Barclays Center now stands where O’Malley wanted to go

It sounds like you’re doing your best impression of a doc narrator without actually just telling the story in your own voice.

The Dodgers certainly weren't the first team to relocate, but they were the first franchise not in financial distress to do so. As late as 1956, the Dodgers were still the National League's most profitable franchise, but they had to reach the World Series (where they reverted to form and again lost to the Yankees) to go from marginally profitable to solidly so. Walter O'Malley knew the franchise couldn't stay at that pinnacle forever; Dem Bums were starting to get some gray hairs.

Meanwhile the Braves were an ascendant team with a brand new stadium in Milwaukee. They first topped two million in attendance in 1953, and would continue to eclipse two million for the next three seasons. The Dodgers , on the other hand, played in a tiny and crumbling stadium in an area that was fast becoming the mean streets. To quote John Helyar in Lords of the Realm, "the borough was turning poorer, blacker and browner." The Giants were facing similar problems, playing in a decaying stadium in a neighborhood that was doing the same. The Giants drew over 1.1 million fans during their Series year of 1954, but by 1956, attendance had plummeted to just 629,179, last in the National League. Fear of urban crime wasn't the only thing keeping fans away, but it made far more sense for the Dodgers and Giants to take their rivalry to the West Coast than try and make a go of it in New York.

What's interesting is that Los Angeles County first approached Washington Senators owner Calvin Griffith about moving. Since baseball was absolutely glacial when it came to expansion, it appeared the only way for Los Angeles to land a team was to go 'a courtin.' Kenneth Hahn, the commissioner of Los Angeles at that time, figured he'd have to go bottom-feeding to pursue an existing franchise. The woeful Senators were a logical choice, and Griffith was definitely interested. However, when he met with Hahn during the 1956 World Series, there was a slight snag: Calvin Griffith was afraid of flying. He promised to be in Los Angeles by train by early November, but once O'Malley got word of the courtship between Los Angeles and the Senators, he quickly got word to Hahn that he was coming and a sales pitch wouldn't be necessary. But had Calvin Griffith gotten to LA ahead of Walter O'Malley, it's possible that today we could have the Los Angeles Senators.

It also helped MLB's move to the west coast that they were sending 2 fully established top tier rosters out there instead of populating all of the new California teams with expansion rosters.

My Uncle Pete grew up in Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn and he LOVED the Dodgers he always tells stories about sneaking into Ebbets field and when they moved he was not happy what so ever and pretty much stopped watching baseball but whats ironic is that him and my grandfather move to Southern California themselves in the late 50s and both styled out west to this day yet he is still pissed off about Dodgers even though the Dodgers are in the area lol