European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine w ghosts of ebbets Field by Roger Kahn written for toe new York Winter has Laid m icy hand on Mckeever Back of the old Loftfield and there is nothing much for neighbourhood kids to do but watch the new Snow Blacken under in colder Winters Long a magic you threw a rubber Ball against a Dun Brick Wall and calculated How Many months and weeks Days would have to pass before Jackie and fun nolo and campy and pee wee marched Home again to ebbets like already the red Brick houses called ebbets Field apartments show disorder and other symptoms of incipient where generations of baseball crowds borrowed and exulted lies Only another Corner of the Urban it is almost eerie in the whistling the soul of Brooklyn shrivelled and was lost when a baseball franchise moved and be wreckers Ball ravaged ebbed if we haunt Walter Omalley mused Over a Lucllan luncheon at Peri nos restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard in los if we haunt moved Maestro Omalley played a thoughtful look at a Crystal said a we have fresh raspberries flown in from new Omalley round face assumed a More practical sex he Are you getting the Tab for this lunch or am i Walter Francis Omalley is a manipulative adventurer of 74 Winters who feels that politicians and circumstances booted him and the dodgers out of the Borough of in what remains of feel ing runs the other Omalley deserted the Issue who rejected whom is native More to divorce than to the sports some remember the dodgers of the 1930s with affectionate frenchy a Brooklyn once tried to score standing up and was tagged Why the hell didst you slide asked Casey the i was Bordagaray but i was afraid id crush my one thousand on the laugh Zero at the Box the dodgers spent the great depression shuttling Between fifth and seventh playing before crowds Larry Macphail brought in some decent ballplayers at the end of the Omalley considering with Peculiar warmth a Platter of calves won a pen but then he went off to now the Brooklyn Trust a client of mine when i was practising had a note outstanding that the dodgers would not they asked me to look into and i smoked things out at the club would not repay because it there was no dodger Stock haunt paid a dividend in a litigation persisted with the estate of a former even ebbets Field was in Hock to a life in Durance things were so bad a 25 percent share of the team was practically i obliged and bought in for Branch Rickey replaced Macphail and passed a variety of he found Duke traded for preacher Roe and Billy and integrated baseball with Jackie a real baseball Omalley pronounced at the but Rickey didst have much organizational business the contract be wrote for himself was unfair to every other Stock the contract he wrote himself looking up from the Omalley eyes turned we bad to gel him out of there if the club was Ever going to make and we got him out of there in As dodgers president and at length controlling Stock Omalley played a multilevel to the press and he portrayed himself As a and it is True that he likes to watch baseball but the Man the Interior Omalley so to burned with Dis passionate bad weather Hurt Twentyfive years Omalley ordered plans and a working Model for a Ball Park with a retractable no one took a domed stadium seriously in the television was growing beyond the nine Inch Omalley charted receipts and concluded that radio whets the appetite of the fan television satisfies he tried to talk pay television with David Samoff but was he saw blocks of Brownstone houses boarded up in dodger were moving the team was everyone knew but a winning team was not enough for he wanted victories plus plus opportunities for future he saw himself wedged into an old Ball Park in a declining and it had taken him so Long to gel to where he hed be damned if hed stay the new zealand raspberries outrageously Pink for i believed in mass Omalley so i wanted a new Park Over the Long Island rail Road Sta Tion at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic i envisioned a Ball which we would which would not have Cost the taxpayers a right in the Railroad station to Deal with the suburban with a break on pay i could have Given Brook Lyn fans a but Robert insisted that we at a site he was that Lay Between a cemetery and the los Angeles turned out to be More if Robert Moses had been less rigid 20 years if the Robert had been imag Ine the continuity of the Koufax Drysdale Maury wills stealing that string of great septem and now Steve who wears Carl Furillo old the dodgers in Brooklyn to this the fancy time old Borough of steeples and could be old Brooklyn but if you think then fancy has turned your mind to Ball clubs dont save or even the indians remain in downtown around their Cleveland wastes the tigers linger in de which someone Calls no longer a City but a rim around a bomb in its new Yankee Staci is particularly irrelevant to the horrors of the South had the dodgers stayed in Justice would have been because the mets and los Angeles de serve each but Brooklyn today would still be a Borough of buildings would rats would prowl within sight of Walter o valleys pleasure May the souls of Jackie Robinson and Gil Hodges Shine on in their glory May the Urban planners go to Roger Kahn la bit Julif 1 in mat Brooklyn Stalwart Casey Stengel left As dodger player 19121917 Ace Pitcher preacher wreckers Ball ravaged storied ebbets Field after the dodgers went january 1978 the stars and stripes Page 13