DBWI: Brooklyn Dodgers Dont win All those WS

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What would have happened had our beloved Brooklyn Dodgers not won all those Championships against the hated Yankees in 41', 47', 49', 51', 52', 53' and 56' . The Crowning moment of these being the 51' season when the dodgers, well behind the Giants, came back and beat the Giants behind Ralph Branca's strikeout of the side in the ninth. The Yankees finally won in 55' but have been considered one of the best teams to ever play without having the World Series victories to show for it.

How would have the World of baseball have been changed had the
Brooklyn Dodgers not won those seven Titles and established one of the greatest Dynasties in Baseball History.
 
Hmmm....for starters, the Dodgers wouldn't be the most hated team in baseball, and as a corollary, the franchise that all the front-runners and fair-weather bandwagon pseudo-fans root for. At the same time, the franchise would not have been sufficiently flush with cash and a source of entertainment/tourist income for the entire city of New York: recall that allowed O'Malley to exercise considerable influence to coerce the city to <ahem> adjust several (dozen?) zoning rules/regulations to allow the Dodgers to acquire a chunk of land in Queens to build a new stadium with construction starting in 1957.

You may recall there was some discussion about moving the Dodgers to Los Angeles for the start of the 1958 season: that bubbled to the surface in the 1956 winter meetings, and spurred the city of New York to make the necessary moves to keep that major source of tourism/entertainment dollars in town. It also provided the entry for Branch Rickey's expansion program, beginning with the 1959 season: both leagues threw in as a common pool of talent, establishing new teams in San Francisco (the American League Seals), Los Angeles (the National League Angels), the Twin Cities (the National League Twins) and Houston (the American League Roughnecks).

It also ensured that not only would the Dodger/Giant rivalry stay intensely hot, but ensured the rise of a new rivalry that has, at times, eclipsed that one: the Phillies and Dodgers, made all the more intense by the Phils' pennants and world championships in the late '70s and early '80s.
 
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