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Long before he campaigned against corporate greed and an economy for the rich, a young Bernie Sanders learned his own painful lesson about big business. It came in the fall of 1957 when his neighborhood baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, moved to Los Angeles.
Sanders had just turned 16 and friends say he was devastated after Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley announced the transfer. The Dodgers had been an essential part of his childhood in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn where he could walk to their ballpark, basketball jerseys for cheap Ebbets Field, and buy a ticket for 60 cents. Even today he can name the Dodgers 1950s infield of Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Billy Cox. Then they were gone, whisked away to California.
The shock of their departure seems to have informed the Democratic presidential candidate’s early view of the world, so much so that some of his closest friends and confidants wonder if the incident helped inspire his political ideology today.
But baseball has been a part of the Vermont senator’s personal and political life. As mayor of Burlington, new jersey cheap apartments Vermont in the early 1980s he worked with business leaders to bring a minor league team believing it could bond the community much like the Dodgers of his childhood Brooklyn. For a time, he wanted that team to be owned by the citizens, meaning it would truly belong to Burlington and not an owner who viewed it as an investment. And in one of his most visible moments as a congressman he complained during the 2005 baseball steroid hearings that the media would pack a hearing room for star baseball players while ignoring childhood poverty.
“I asked him: ‘Did this have a deep impact on you?’ and he said: ‘Of course! I thought the Dodgers belonged to Brooklyn,’” says Richard Sugarman, who is one of the Democratic frontrunner’s closest friends. “It does lay out the question of who owns what.”
When Sanders ran for mayor of Burlington in 1981 he promised to enhance the city’s quality of life. After he won by 10 votes he set out to rebuild Burlington’s fading waterfront and preserve affordable housing for the city’s blue-collar workers. He also believed Burlington needed a baseball team like the Brooklyn of his childhood.
Early in Sanders’s first term he was approached by a group of residents and business leaders who told him a Class AA Eastern League franchise in Holyoke, Massachusetts was for sale. They urged him to see if he the city could get it.
At the time, Sugarman, Gutman and Sanders were intrigued by the idea of having the citizens own a team in a sort of public trust like the NFL’s Green Bay Packers. Their thought was that the city would get a bank to finance the purchase – the Holyoke franchise eventually sold for $85,000 – then find or create a business entity to handle the selling of shares to the public. Gutman believes the price they discussed was $100 a share.
The World Series begins on Tuesday and it features the Mets, cheap homes in new jersey who filled the void left by the Dodgers and New York Giants (now in San Francisco) as the city’s National League team. Sanders probably will not follow the Series. Aside from the Super Bowl, which he watches every year with his friend Huck Gutman, he does not pay close attention to professional sports anymore. He doesn’t have the time, Gutman says.
Rumors of the Dodgers’ departure had been around for a couple of years before they actually moved. The deal Los Angeles was giving O’Malley – allowing him to swap a plot of land below downtown for a hilltop called Chavez Ravine – was too good to turn down. Looking back, Gutman compares it to a company that closes a factory, cheap ticket to new jersey putting people out of jobs, to take advantage of tax breaks offered in elsewhere. To him – and many others in Brooklyn at the time – their move was a betrayal.
“We never understood that he who pays the piper plays the tune. cheap stitched football jerseys It was a lesson that it doesn’t matter whether people love (a team) it’s all about the money. I don’t think there had been those kinds of things. We all know now the sports world is all about making money but this was the first time we saw it. This was uprooting a club that had all these historical links to the community.”
Sanders, whose campaign did not comment for this story or make him available for an interview, has said many of his political ideas were molded in college at the University of Chicago. The most he has said about the impact of the Dodgers’ move came on a recent podcast with President Barack Obama’s former advisor David Axelrod in which he said he didn’t understand O’Malley’s departure at the time and called it “a brutal act which impacted Brooklyn in a very significant way.”
Sanders had just turned 16 and friends say he was devastated after Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley announced the transfer. The Dodgers had been an essential part of his childhood in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn where he could walk to their ballpark, basketball jerseys for cheap Ebbets Field, and buy a ticket for 60 cents. Even today he can name the Dodgers 1950s infield of Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Billy Cox. Then they were gone, whisked away to California.
The shock of their departure seems to have informed the Democratic presidential candidate’s early view of the world, so much so that some of his closest friends and confidants wonder if the incident helped inspire his political ideology today.
But baseball has been a part of the Vermont senator’s personal and political life. As mayor of Burlington, new jersey cheap apartments Vermont in the early 1980s he worked with business leaders to bring a minor league team believing it could bond the community much like the Dodgers of his childhood Brooklyn. For a time, he wanted that team to be owned by the citizens, meaning it would truly belong to Burlington and not an owner who viewed it as an investment. And in one of his most visible moments as a congressman he complained during the 2005 baseball steroid hearings that the media would pack a hearing room for star baseball players while ignoring childhood poverty.
“I asked him: ‘Did this have a deep impact on you?’ and he said: ‘Of course! I thought the Dodgers belonged to Brooklyn,’” says Richard Sugarman, who is one of the Democratic frontrunner’s closest friends. “It does lay out the question of who owns what.”
When Sanders ran for mayor of Burlington in 1981 he promised to enhance the city’s quality of life. After he won by 10 votes he set out to rebuild Burlington’s fading waterfront and preserve affordable housing for the city’s blue-collar workers. He also believed Burlington needed a baseball team like the Brooklyn of his childhood.
Early in Sanders’s first term he was approached by a group of residents and business leaders who told him a Class AA Eastern League franchise in Holyoke, Massachusetts was for sale. They urged him to see if he the city could get it.
At the time, Sugarman, Gutman and Sanders were intrigued by the idea of having the citizens own a team in a sort of public trust like the NFL’s Green Bay Packers. Their thought was that the city would get a bank to finance the purchase – the Holyoke franchise eventually sold for $85,000 – then find or create a business entity to handle the selling of shares to the public. Gutman believes the price they discussed was $100 a share.
The World Series begins on Tuesday and it features the Mets, cheap homes in new jersey who filled the void left by the Dodgers and New York Giants (now in San Francisco) as the city’s National League team. Sanders probably will not follow the Series. Aside from the Super Bowl, which he watches every year with his friend Huck Gutman, he does not pay close attention to professional sports anymore. He doesn’t have the time, Gutman says.
Rumors of the Dodgers’ departure had been around for a couple of years before they actually moved. The deal Los Angeles was giving O’Malley – allowing him to swap a plot of land below downtown for a hilltop called Chavez Ravine – was too good to turn down. Looking back, Gutman compares it to a company that closes a factory, cheap ticket to new jersey putting people out of jobs, to take advantage of tax breaks offered in elsewhere. To him – and many others in Brooklyn at the time – their move was a betrayal.
“We never understood that he who pays the piper plays the tune. cheap stitched football jerseys It was a lesson that it doesn’t matter whether people love (a team) it’s all about the money. I don’t think there had been those kinds of things. We all know now the sports world is all about making money but this was the first time we saw it. This was uprooting a club that had all these historical links to the community.”
Sanders, whose campaign did not comment for this story or make him available for an interview, has said many of his political ideas were molded in college at the University of Chicago. The most he has said about the impact of the Dodgers’ move came on a recent podcast with President Barack Obama’s former advisor David Axelrod in which he said he didn’t understand O’Malley’s departure at the time and called it “a brutal act which impacted Brooklyn in a very significant way.”
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