John Burbridge, a professor of operations and supply chain management, explores the role Jersey City, N.J., played in trying to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn in “The Brooklyn Dodgers in Jersey City,” which appears in the Summer 2010 issue of The Baseball Research Journal published by the Society for American Baseball Research.
The business of baseball was changed dramatically when the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants moved to the West Coast in 1957. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers played seven games in Jersey City in each of the 1956 and 1957 seasons. What was the role of Jersey City as Walter O’Malley, principal owner of the Dodgers, and Robert Moses, possibly the most powerful man in New York City, negotiated to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn?
That’s just one question Burbridge explores in the article.