Anyone still alive who played any part in the Brooklyn Dodgers’ 1957 move to LA owes America an apology. This is because one of the Brooklynites traumatized by the move was a young Bernie Sanders.
“I did see in that case about the greed of one particular company,” Sanders said, “And that impacted me.”
Thus, whilst not solely responsible for Bernie Sanders becoming America’s most prominent socialist, the Dodgers escape from New York was what led Sanders to view successful businesses as the enemy. Therefore, it is truly poetic that the recent dispute between baseball owners and the players’ union, which delayed opening day, has inspired Sanders to introduce legislation repealing the Major League Baseball (MLB)’s century-old exemption from federal antitrust laws.
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