Nostalgic Good Idea for Baseball

[EbtsFldGuy]

For several years now, I've had a thought about a way for MLB to generate some good will and at the same time help former players who are down on their luck.

The idea is simple: during the 2007 season, bring the Dodgers and Giants to Shea to play a regular season game, wearing their retro 1957 uniforms, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their final year in NYC. The proceeds from the game could all go to the Baseball Assistance Team (if MLB still runs it) or some other medium which could help needy ex players.

My guess: the park would sell out quickly.

What think ye?

[Shotgun Shuba]

I think it's a good idea from a NY perspective but these are roadblocks:
1) SF and LA fans would scream bloody murder
2) Baseball doesn't feel any crime was comitted in '57, they could have stopped it then, so I don't know if they would care now.
3) It might just be sad, like remembering your first love and realizing they are gone forever.
4) The loss of revenue for a home game is substantial, especially a giant-dodger game.
5)Would it sell out? I am not so sure. It might be a 12,000 fan farce.


I thought when the dodgers were in town for the Jackie Robinson number retirement that they should have worn their ivory whites and Brooklyn caps. I was amazed nobody thought of that.

[Brownie31]

A better way for mlb to generate goodwill would be to overrule
King George and Frederick the Great and return big league
baseball to Brooklyn!

Brownie31

[MATHA531]

Celebrate 1957???? Since when do we celebrate crimes?

[BayRidgeBrooklyn]

The L.A. franchise has had a sort of phobia, a squeamish reluctance to embrace the team's original home. You don't show off pictures of your ex-wife after you've remarried.

[musial6]

The L.A. franchise has had a sort of phobia, a squeamish reluctance to embrace the team's original home. You don't show off pictures of your ex-wife after you've remarried.

What about in her coffin?

[brooklyndodger14]

For several years now, I've had a thought about a way for MLB to generate some good will and at the same time help former players who are down on their luck.

The idea is simple: during the 2007 season, bring the Dodgers and Giants to Shea to play a regular season game, wearing their retro 1957 uniforms, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their final year in NYC. The proceeds from the game could all go to the Baseball Assistance Team (if MLB still runs it) or some other medium which could help needy ex players.

My guess: the park would sell out quickly.

What think ye?

A Possible Variation of the Theme:

True, as mentioned above, SF & LA fans would scream in protest (with the LA fan contingent that would decide/afford to attend probably leaving early just to feel like they're at home), but how about....

A version of "Turn Back the Clock Day" wherein both the visiting Dodgers and, when their scheduled apprearance comes up, the visiting Giants, face off against the Mets.

I would like to see the visiting teams wearing their respective 1957 HOME WHITES with the old block-style numbers and no names on the backs. The Mets in turn would wear their 1962-style pinstripes with their blue-felt-over-orange-twill numbers & "Mets" logo (no front numbers).

The Guests of Honor would be the Duke and the Say Hey Kid. As everyone knows, the Mick has been gone 11 plus years already; we, and MLB should embrace and celebrate while they still breathe the times, achievements and memories they both created, all without designer steroids, human-growth hormones, and such-like.

I am aware that fans of both past teams who actually lived through that time would find it sacriledge for the California usurpers of their respective franchises to even dare to wear the colors and uniforms of the original BROOKLYN Dodgers & NEW YORK Giants... and in their case, rightfully so.

My gentle counterpoint to that is this: As stated in one response, "Why celebrate a crime?" My feeling is that to focus on the administrative chicanery leading to the teams to abandon the city alone denies proper acknowldgement of the deeds and histories of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants as a whole.

As whole new generations are now being raised on the abomination of night World Series baseball games 4 hours long, so too are they raised in unawareness of what the best in baseball was back then. New York City baseball teams were the ones to beat in either league, and the teams in other cities would often measure their own worth on just how good they could stand against those teams.

Those are my meager thoughts... but on further reflection of the above scenario of Mays throwing out the first ball as a New York Giant, we have the distasteful irony of Barry Bonds in the possible present day Giant lineup: A legendary hero of a simpler game comes face to face with a harsh reality...

Maybe this might not work out after all... but one can dream and hope nonetheless.

Dennis
BrooklynDodger14

[ACrank]

This would make much more sense...

A version of "Turn Back the Clock Day" wherein both the visiting Dodgers and, when their scheduled apprearance comes up, the visiting Giants, face off against the Mets.

I would like to see the visiting teams wearing their respective 1957 HOME WHITES with the old block-style numbers and no names on the backs. The Mets in turn would wear their 1962-style pinstripes with their blue-felt-over-orange-twill numbers & "Mets" logo (no front numbers).

The Guests of Honor would be the Duke and the Say Hey Kid. As everyone knows, the Mick has been gone 11 plus years already; we, and MLB should embrace and celebrate while they still breathe the times, achievements and memories they both created, all without designer steroids, human-growth hormones, and such-like.

i mean the Orioles returned to St Louis wearing St Louis Brown unis, and the Braves to Boston wearing their Boston unis...

on the other hand you can bet in 2008 the Giants and Dodgers will be wearing throwbacks 'celebrating' their 50th years on the West Coast...

[NYMets523]

It is a nice idea, but I don't see it happening. This would be my idea:

1) Have the Giants play a 3-straight games at Shea. On the final game, the Giants wear old NY jerseys and the Mets wear old Brooklyn jerseys.

2) After a day off, the Dodgers play a 3-game series at Shea. On the first game, the Dodgers wear old Brooklyn jerseys and the Mets wear old NYG jerseys.