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I’ve never thought about this before, but I can’t tell you off the top of my head somebody that’s going to wax nostalgic about the New York Giants, as far as somebody you identify (as),’ Oh, he was the diehard Giants fan,'” Dodgers historian Mark Langill said. The National League (NL) replaced the NAPBBP in 1876 and granted exclusive territories to its eight members, excluding the Atlantics in favor of the Mutual Club of New York who had shared home grounds with the Atlantics. When the Mutuals were expelled by the league, the Hartford club moved in, the press dubbing them The Brooklyn Hartfords, [3] and played its home games at Union Grounds in 1877 before disbanding. When you say ‘New York,’ it could be New York City, it could be New York State,” Weinberg said. “But when you say ‘Brooklyn,’ it’s a defined, confined geographical area.” A 2007 HBO film, Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush, is a documentary covering the Dodgers history from early days to the beginning of the Los Angeles era. In the film, the story is related that O'Malley was so hated by Brooklyn Dodger fans after the move to California, that it was said: "If you asked a Brooklyn Dodger fan, if you had a gun with only two bullets in it and were in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and O'Malley, who would you shoot? The answer: O'Malley, twice!"

The Giants won the 1905, 1921, ’22 and ’33 World Series and lost several others. The Dodgers, meanwhile, were empty-handed, year after year after — until their only title in New York, in 1955. The Dodgers were the occupants of the mantle that the Mets would later take up: the lovable loser. In 1934, Giants manager Bill Terry asked whether the Dodgers were even still in the league. The Giants carried a feeling of superiority that the Dodgers, for the longest time, never could. Goldblatt, Andrew (3 June 2003). The Giants and the Dodgers: Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry. McFarland. ISBN 9780786416400– via Google Books. The Dodgers made the World Series again in 1956, too. They were reaching new peaks, and then they were gone.

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Goldstein, Richard (1991). Superstars and Screwballs: 100 Years of Brooklyn Baseball. New York: Dutton. a b Brown, Peter Jensen (7 April 2014). "The Grim Reality of the Trolley Dodgers". Early Sports 'n Pop-Culture Blog . Retrieved 13 June 2014.

Harvey Weinberg, a 76-year-old New York Giants fan born in the Bronx, believes some of the sentimentality toward the Brooklyn Dodgers can be found in the team name itself. Meanwhile, non-stop transcontinental airline travel had become routine during the years since the Second World War. Teams were no longer bound by much slower railroad infrastructure. Because of advances in civil aviation, it became possible to locate teams farther apart – as far west as California – while maintaining the same busy game schedules.

The annual ritual of building excitement, followed in the end by disappointment, became a common pattern to the long suffering fans, and "Wait ’til next year!" became an unofficial Dodger slogan. Borzi, Pat (June 17, 2005). "The Giants Almost Headed Not Quite So Far West". The New York Times . Retrieved February 12, 2018. The next day, according to Johnson, San Francisco officials met with Stoneham. By then the Dodgers were looking hard at Los Angeles. O'Malley needed the Giants because National League owners, concerned about travel costs, would not approve only one team going across the country. The earlier Giants were much more famous than the Dodgers,” the late Larry King said in 2013. “The Giants of (John) McGraw, Carl Hubbell, Christy Mathewson.”