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Beneath the Ballpark
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The Brooklyn Dodgers Need a New Stadium
The Brooklyn Dodgers had been playing at a classic ballpark called Ebbets Field. The team owner Walter O'Malley wanted to build his own modern, well-designed stadium in Brooklyn. He even went so far as to hire Buckminster Fuller to draft plans for a dome to go over the top of the field that would turn the stadium into an all-weather facility. But there was one very powerful bureaucrat standing in the way - New York's infamous master builder Robert Moses.
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