7 4608 All Jaydawg^2681 Re: Fifty years ago today, baseball voted to move the Dodgers and Giants to California, establishing franchises west of the Mississippi for the first time 5/28/07, 3:20pm (Last Edited: 5/28/07, 3:23pm) Here's an interesting piece of info from the article... • The sport's insiders recalled an attempt by the St. Louis Browns (later the Baltimore Orioles) to move to Los Angeles 16 years earlier, after the 1941 season. A league vote on that proposed relocation was scheduled for Dec. 8, 1941 -- the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was canceled, and never revisited. Wow, I never knew this.. O'Malley would've probably still moved the Dodgers out west if the Browns were in L.A. The Browns were an A.L. team, so the Dodgers could've fit in, but I doubt that O'Malley would've ever moved them out here because the Browns franchise would have likely been playing in Chavez Ravine, which was the only place where O'Malley wanted to build his ballpark. If the vote occured on 12/8/41, then there would likely be a team today called the San Francisco Dodgers. It looks like something good came out of that "day of infamy" after all. :):) [Jaydawg from Tarzana/CA] Replies: