beyOnd (the mississippi)

away back in july, wayward O reported upon some unsavory doins' afoot on Walter O'Malley front! why would pro-O'Malley movement be hitting radio and teevee waves all these years later, Wayward O asked amid summer's swelter, to sully Robert Moses and re-cast him as central villain in great saga of departure of dem Bums to sunnier climes of west coast in year 1957 AD?


It all seemed a bit random until yesterday:

But revisionist history has been relatively kind to Mr. O’Malley, who owned the Dodgers from 1950 to 1970. Many historians maintain that, still at the height of his city-shaping powers in the late 1950s, [Robert Moses] forced Mr. O’Malley’s hand by refusing to use eminent domain law to acquire land for Mr. O’Malley to build a new domed stadium along Atlantic Avenue to replace the undersize Ebbets Field.

Others say Mr. O’Malley forced Mr. Moses to force his hand by making unreasonable demands for land and snubbing Mr. Moses’s offer of a stadium in Queens. They say he was just looking for an excuse to move to Los Angeles, where he knew he could make a lot more money.

The NYT even plays REVISIONIST HISTORY CArD as t.w.O. did in July!

This episode proves BEYOND SHADOW OF DOUBT that there are secret, powerful, conspiratOrial forces controlling game of baseball to large degree:

• pynchonesque secret handshakes;
• out-of-temporal-phase meetings between greats past and present;
• karma-leases that don't come due for decades to come;
• atavistic urges;
• and other cloak-and-dagger renderings of truth that don't manifest themselves for lifetimes!

JAY GIBBONS, ARE YOU READING THIS? Fear not the moment, rather the DECADES.