![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heylar reminds us that one of Walter O’Malley’s ideas about how to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn was to capture revenues from fans who were moving out of the city and to the suburbs and were loathe to come back to Ebbets Field due to parking concerns and worries about crime and the like. Most of what you read about these subjects from me and others is informed by the stuff in “Lords of the Realm,” but it is so much more entertaining and understandable when you take it all in in one book. It’s impossible to understand how baseball works as a business - how and why the owners, union, commissioner and TV networks do what they do and why - without understanding how baseball developed as a business over the past century or so. I say that because I am currently re-reading “Lords of the Realm,” John Helyar’s essential book about the business of baseball. I’ve seen some amount of consternation about this on the part of Dodgers fans, but really, this is how it was meant to be all along. It’s cable or satellite only thanks to the launch of their new channel, SportsNetLA. This year, for the first time ever, you will not be able to watch the Dodgers on television in the Los Angeles area with a set of rabbit ears on your TV. ![]()
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