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I've been doing some research for a fictional book about the Dodgers coming back to Brooklyn, and I'm curious about this chapter in Dodgers' history. I've found a handful of articles detailing the panel's attempts at bringing the Dodgers back (which were obviously unsuccessful!) but haven't found many fans who were aware that it was even a possibility. To my surprise, a number of those I've spoken with have also said that even if they had known about it, they wouldn't necessarily have wanted the Dodgers to come back! One who had moved on to the Mets said it would be like a jilted lover coming back after 50 years, when you had gotten remarried after 10.

Anyone feel differently? The same?

I've loved looking through this site, by the way! Lots of great memories. I was born well after the Dodgers had moved, but now that I live in Brooklyn, I've been really getting in to the history of the team (in large part thanks to the Brooklyn Baseball Gallery at Coney).

Welcome to our site. I for one would have welcomed the Dodgers back to Brooklyn in 1997 (or any other time for that matter). I became a Mets fan, but having the Bums back would have been great.

Yes, welcome to our site. The reality is, there were and are way to many obstacles to bringing the Dodgers back to Brooklyn. Politicians in general, and New York politicians in particular will do anything for publicity, and I am quite sure that was the case in this instance. While I would love to see a team in Brooklyn, moving the Dodgers back is not the answer. All I would want back is the name Dodgers, then allow Brooklyn to have the next expansion team, or the next franchise re-location, I wouldn't want the people of LA to lose their team. This was never about the people of LA, they deserved to have a team. This has always been about Walter O'Malley and what he did to Brooklyn, plain and simple. Had the Reds or another team been given permission to move to Brooklyn or Queens, all of this would be moot.

Unlike my friends here I don't want the Dodgers back in any form, my Dodgers left 50 years ago and like the gentleman said I found a new love a few years later in the Mets, the Dodgers in my mind no longer exist after 1957.

I wouldn't want to see the LA team moved to Brooklyn, but I would like the Dodger name back in Brooklyn, for another team..

The Dodgers are firmly entrenched in southern CA. Now with Dodgertown getting their own zip code, Dodger Stadium will last another 47 years.............we won't.

I honestly don't ever expect Brooklyn to ever again get a major league team.

Thanks for all the responses! I have to say, I really don't see the Dodgers coming back either: the Mets & the Yankees would have veto power over any moves into NYC, and I can't see them allowing a third competitor (incidentally, that's in big part why the push to bring the Dodgers back in 97 never made it anywhere! Brooklyn Borough President Golden tried to get legislation changing that law through Congress, but he couldn't make it happen).

Any thoughts on the Cyclones? Given that the Mets decided to move them shortly after the Dodgers sale, it's hard not to think there was some sort of connection to the attempt to bring them back. They have a nifty stadium, and Coney Island is always fun . . .

I like the Cyclones, their hat and their stadium.

I was surprised that the Mets were allowed to put a team in Brooklyn, to tell you the truth Had Walter O'Malley still been alive I guarantee he would have blocked it. Although I have only seen pictures of Keyspan, it appeard that the stadium could be expanded. That area would be a great place for a major league team. I don't know why that area wasn't considered for the Dodgers.