The 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers

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 season was overshadowed by Walter O'Malley

Walter O'Malley

Walter Francis O'Malley was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from to . He served as Brooklyn Dodgers chief legal counsel when Jackie Robinson broke the racial color barrier in...

's threat to move the Dodgers out of Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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 if the city did not build him a new stadium in that borough. When the best the mayor could promise was a stadium in Queens, O'Malley made good on his threats and moved the team to Los Angeles

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 after the season ended. The Dodgers final game at Ebbets Field

Ebbets Field

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 was on September 24 as they finished their 68th and last NL season, and their 75th overall, in Brooklyn in third place with an 84-70 record, eleven games behind the NL and World Series Champion Milwaukee Braves

1957 Milwaukee Braves season

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• October 14, 1956: Connie Grob
  Connie Grob
  Conrad George Grob was an American professional baseball player in the 1950s and 1960s. A right-handed pitcher, he spent one full season — — in Major League Baseball as a member of the Washington Senators...
  
   was purchased by the Dodgers from the Washington Senators
  Minnesota Twins
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During the season, the Dodgers played eight home games at Roosevelt Stadium

Roosevelt Stadium

Roosevelt Stadium was a baseball park at Droyer's Point in Jersey City, New Jersey. It opened in April 1937 and hosted high-minor league baseball, seven major league baseball games, plus championship boxing matches, top-name musical acts, important regional high school football and even soccer...

 in Jersey City, New Jersey

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, as part of owner Walter O'Malley

Walter O'Malley

Walter Francis O'Malley was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from to . He served as Brooklyn Dodgers chief legal counsel when Jackie Robinson broke the racial color barrier in...

's continued attempts to pressure Brooklyn to allow him to build a new stadium in his preferred location at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues.

On July 20, 1957: Duke Snider

Duke Snider

Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider , nicknamed "The Silver Fox" and "The Duke of Flatbush", was a Major League Baseball center fielder and left-handed batter who played for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers , New York Mets , and San Francisco Giants .Snider was elected to the National Baseball Hall of...

 hit the 300th home run

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 of his career.