Former Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley has been elected to the Hall of Fame, it was announced today. To hear some New Yorkers talk, Satan just got an invite to the Vatican bingo night.
Witness the comments attached to this NY Times article, “Exec Who Moved ‘Dem Bums’ Out of Brooklyn Is Hall of Famer”. One Harold Stabner opines:
O’Malley ripped the heart out of major league baseball when his money hungry heart moved west. New York WAS baseball with three major league teams. He should be left out of any baseball history published in the future.
As usual, New York is the center of the universe.
Some folks try to defend O’Malley, injecting a smidgen of reality into the discussion. Like Eric Silver, who writes,
Villain? Who was the villain? Fact check on Robert Moses and his gigantic ego who wouldn’t budge in his one-sided negotiations with the O’Malleys. Who in their right mind WOULDN’T have left Brooklyn then?
Aside from the 50-year-old angst surrounding the Dodgers’ departure, I have to echo the disgust at the continuing exclusion of Gil Hodges from the Hall of Fame.
Also, a 2008 Yankees-Dodgers World Series would be historically appropriate and absolutely awesome.
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