| After the Dodgers being at Ebbets Field Walter | | | | teams further apart. Even as far west as |
| O'Malley started looking to buy new land in | | | | California while being able to have the same |
| Brooklyn and would make it more suitable as | | | | baseball schedules. |
| Ebbets Field was old, even if the Dodgers were to | | | | During the 1956 World Series Los Angeles officials |
| make it to the pennant their would be no way to | | | | attended the game in the hopes of a baseball |
| sell out a game even after the Dodgers were | | | | team moving to the City of Angels, the Dodgers |
| dominating the league from 46 to 57. | | | | was not even a thought on their minds. The Los |
| Robert Moses a New York Construction | | | | Angeles officials target was the Washington |
| Coordinator, wanted to force Walter O'Malley into | | | | Senators but in 1961 they moved to Bloomington, |
| using a area in Flushing Meadows, Queens. Which | | | | Minnesota where they would become the |
| later became Shea Stadium. Robert Moses | | | | Minnesota Twins. Walter O'Malley was looking for |
| wanted a city owned park as well as city built., | | | | other options in case New York politicians and |
| which was not the idea of of walter O'Malley. | | | | Robert Moses would not let him build a stadium in |
| When O'Malley was not able to find land in | | | | Brooklyn that he wanted, O'Malley started talking |
| Brooklyn that would be suitable for a park, he | | | | to the Los Angeles officials leting them know that |
| started to think of other options. | | | | he was interested in moving the baseball team to |
| The years since the Second World War their was | | | | Los Angeles. New York would not offer O'Malley a |
| routine non-stop transcontinetal air travel, and | | | | ballpark that was suitable for building stadium and |
| baseball teams no longer had to wait for the slow | | | | Los Angeles offered O'Malley a chance to own |
| railroad timetables. Due to the advancement of | | | | the ballpark, which would give him complete |
| transportation, they were able to locate baseball | | | | control of all the revenue that would come in. |