How Dodger Stadium came to be

[@Liofa73]

The owner was like “Yes there was displacement, but look at this” - unbelievable. No compassion. All he cares about is money and winning. Some of those houses and shops in the photos were beautiful.

[@rodneyboehner3007]

Give Dodger Stadium back to the Mexico! It's stolen land!!

[@DODGERBLUE55]

That wasn’t the owner of the team, he’s a city counsel man. He literally has nothing to do with the team. You see how quickly misinformation can spread. You just assume he’s the owner and even if WAS affiliated with the team the team has had several changes ownership since O’Malley brought the team to LA.

[@rodneyboehner3007]

@@DODGERBLUE55 They should give all of Los Angeles back to Mexico. The majority in Los Angeles is Mexican anyway.

[@smacdiesel]

@@rodneyboehner3007 Yes, and Mexico can give it back to the tribal communities.

[@clint81]

@@rodneyboehner3007 It's not Mexico it's Tongva land

[@lindawoody8501]

My late Great Grand Aunt was one of the last few to be evicted by the police as she and her housemate land lady protested at the home in Chavez Ravine. My Great Grand Aunt was never the same after she was forced to move. She and her friend the homeowner were very elderly ladies and the eviction was terrible for her.

One of my favorite baseball stadiums

@FBI the shape and design its so classic

[@MrIsra-ff5ln]

@FBI You just described yourself

[@TimCarter]

Of all of the stadiums, I've been to, (about 10), I think it's the worst.

@FBI ok that's your perception and opinion i can respect that if you're honest

@@TimCarter that's fine and that is your opinion cannot get mad at you if you're telling the truth

[@flyhighlow3]

At the very least, give them season tickets for life.

[@AlexGarcia-qm9wx]

Bro that's like spitting in their face. They need to buy them a new home

[@novasniper8073]

Shiiii id take season tickets for life

[@AntcmbHeat]

Not everyone like baseball let alone into sports

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

​@@AntcmbHeatRight.

[@ImTotallySummer]

This was a very dark thing they did. I talk to older people on this side of LA who said that this and the freeway displacement led to a lot of suicides. It was all a lot of people had. Also due red lining it was nearly impossible to get another home. White Only neighborhoods right next door not too many places you could go.

[@richatlarge462]

Somehow they ended up somewhere. Today the area is practically 100% Hispanic as far as the eye can see.

[@rcbrothers1000]

Doesn't matter. Stop trying to halt progress over a few replaceable houses. Like the ridiculous 710 freeway debate. This is why china is winning. They just get things done, no bickering.

[@kernalsander9395]

@@richatlarge462 you think so ? Lmao trying discredit what you whites always do to minorities and justify white this BS

[@user-wi3kp3lu9h]

My great grandparents lived near where home plate was

[@angelcarrillo2394]

Ryan Jones lol

[@oscarpascual1625]

Stop the cap🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢

[@jeffreyvargas7665]

@@dannavalenzuela655 if your ignorant narrow minded self even watched the video you would know that the land wasn’t originally cleared up to build dodger stadium.

[@sng6802]

That’s amazing

[@Lebronisthegoat3]

Nice closest thing I could relate to is touching the old home plate from Shea stadium in the parking lot

[@andrewiskb24]

Shit makes me cry I recent went thru an eviction as well

[@rnklv8281]

Some Dodger fans refer/call Dodger Stadium , Chavez Ravine. As a door opens for some, it closes for others.

[@NoCampDad]

I don't think we call dodger stadium Chavez ravine. We say dodger stadium is at Chavez ravine.

[@rnklv8281]

@@NoCampDad Chavez Ravine was the name used (or at least referred) when the Dodgers and Angels (newly created AL expansion team in the mid 1960's) shared the stadium. Not sure if that name was official or unofficial. It is a term seldom used (being phased out over the years along with the five-dollar box seat and dollar Dodger Dog). Today, Dodger Stadium is probably the official name, although some baseball fans might still call it Chavez Ravine, or just the Ravine. No worries.

[@NoCampDad]

@@rnklv8281 All I know is that I've been going to dodger games since I was a kid in the '70s and it was always referred to as dodger stadium and the location of the stadium was Chavez ravine. But I'm not sure on any official or unofficial names

[@thomasross4610]

Those residents weren't L.A. Dodger fans; they were Brooklyn Dodger fans.

[@djroach3237]

She said "These Mexicans"! As if she's not Mexican! Lol.

[@Josephlunar824]

DJ ROACH I know funny

[@Ubovethclouds]

She has a Nopal on the forehead

[@samuelparedes4725]

May she's from el salvador😂😂

[@humanbraininrobotbod]

No, she is American. She was born in the USA. I think she meant "Mexicans" to describe their national origin. Like you would say "French" if they were from France.

[@richatlarge462]

I think she meant "this particular set of residents of Mexican heritage in Chavez Ravine".

[@FabTV]

Give it back.

[@rentslave]

The Dodgers' President of that time,Walter O'Malley,wasn't too loved in Brooklyn either.A story was going around then stated thusly:If you were in a room with O'Malley,Hitler,and Mussolini but had only two bullets,what would you do?Most answered:Shoot O'Malley twice.

[@mh-do3pe]

Not surprised, these people don't get to the top without screwing over a few people along the way.

[@trapezemusic]

It was O'Malley, Hitler, and Stalin (not Mussolini). Still, a great joke.

[@DavidinSLO]

Learned about this back in the 1980’s. Sad how few Angelenos are aware of the destruction of an ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD to build Dodger Stadium.

[@toyotarizzle]

She is a NY Giants fan now San Francisco Giants

[@fingersfan1843]

I grew up in LA in the 60s and never heard about this until now. I don't blame the Dodgers but those people were not treated right !

[@TheGumbyRules]

The damage was mostly done before the Dodgers showed up on the scene.

[@kernalsander9395]

Haha I don't blame the Dodgers... okay

[@Liofa73]

@@kernalsander9395 - That’s what he said and believes, yet you mock him.

[@rayray4192]

@@Liofa73sometimes we believe lies.

[@rayray4192]

@@Liofa73it’s not a belief- he said he doesn’t blame the Dodgers.

[@southofthebordercards873]

"These Mexicans" Piche Wera ojo azul!

[@No1CurrMadison777]

Why not build the stadium in Beverly Hills or bel air?

[@princeofdarknessxyz1]

would be nice to go back in time and check out first game at dodger stadium...what was that like in and out of the ballpark

[@JoseGonzalez-pv5ox]

Dude I swear same

[@raypavey1102]

Walter O’Malley was offered the site where Shea Stadium was but he turned it down because it wasn’t in Brooklyn

[@edwardcricchio6106]

Robert Moses was just as much a villain as O'Malley was in the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn. What bothers me the most is Los Angeles taking the Dodgers name. They should have been re-branded as the Stars or any other name. The Dodgers were Brooklyn and the name should have remained in New York.

[@richatlarge462]

The Hispanic population in California was only 3% in 1958 (vs 40% now), so I don't know about "mass deportations". Chavez Ravine must have been an uncommon Hispanic enclave at that time. Being paid $7000 for a house back then (eminent domain) would be about only $63,000 today, but taking into account real estate inflation in California, the equivalent buying power would be around maybe a $300,000 home today, which does not buy much until you get out of the metro area. But it was hardly the end of the world financially, even though eminent domain is never a nice thing for those involved, for reasons besides finances.

[@theDavidChannel1]

If you believe the HIspanic population in California was only 3% EVER in history, you my friend, are extremely ignorant.

[@richatlarge462]

@@TheAwflores reread all of what I wrote, kind sir

[@larry4111]

Excellent analysis except at the end when you incorrectly conclude that "the families were evicted to make way for major league baseball." Especially after you DID correctly walk through the history of it earlier. Sure enough, people only remember the last thing they hear and half the comments talk about the people being kicked out to build a stadium. The true story is much more sinister, as you pointed out earlier. It's a shame you ended it so inaccurately. Yes, point A ended up at point C. But to leave out point B is misleading at best. How many Angelenos believe the Dodgers were the villain and that they were responsible for the destruction of the communities? They had nothing to do with it.

[@cr0wnnoize808]

Hate this franchise more than then yanks. Did so many Mexicans wrong yet they LOVE them. Go Angels!

[@Kenna198]

Didn’t you watch the video? The Dodgers had nothing to do with it, the city had already acquired that land through eminent domain in order to build a housing project which was never built, that land was already available when the Dodgers moved to LA.

[@eddievasquez1594]

Sad story about the displacement, but wasn't the DogTown housing project built for these displaced residents?.Its just sad that the families weren't better compensated. I still love my DODGERS. My mom had friends that lived up there.

[@xjew4ux]

Eddie Vasquez make since

[@marquise7200]

Lol a project is gonna make a hood I wonder what those projects look like now smh

[@CM-ko5hd]

I never heard of this story. Why didn't MLB expand the league rather than move the team out of NY? Being from NJ I wonder if I would of been a Dodgers fan if they never moved.

[@jakemadden4308]

Robert Moses was to blame for the Dodgers going to L.A .Robert Moses did not want the Dodgers to build a new stadium in Brooklyn .

[@CM-ko5hd]

@@jakemadden4308 Why not? and who is he?

[@davidlafleche1142]

Brooklyn had even less available land than Los Angeles. Where would they put a stadium? Where would anyone park?

[@charlesjwin]

@@davidlafleche1142 The Dodgers wanted to move to the Brooklyn site that the Brooklyn Nets now play at, where Barclays Center is.

[@charlesjwin]

@@CM-ko5hd Robert Moses was the czar politician in charge of all infastructure planning for New York State.

[@PInk77W1]

When I was 10y old my family lived 3h north of Los Angeles and my older brother took me to a dodger game. When I walked into that stadium It was like walking into heaven. $0.75 for my ticket

[@ssciarratt]

Beautiful location!

[@TheBoxingBoss]

The same is going on in my city now , Bloomington Ca

[@koryncoalson6097]

The Amazon's?

[@mosquitonstuff]

As a Padres fan this is very interesting

[@aaronwilliams6989]

I can understand why she feels that way.

[@papabear3525]

The housing project was a pawn! It was always about the stadium! When they seen the families didn’t wanna move they condemned the land and forced everyone out!

[@kenscardboard]

Great book written about this called Stealing Home

[@jimbobogie8204]

And McCarthy was concerned about Communism...

[@larryaldama1673]

Big traitor like trump 👺👹😡🤬👎

[@todddenny1483]

About time they tell the truth about the Dodgers history & the families that were ruined

[@bobbyg433]

Happens all the time all over the country to ALL different races

[@S0PHSWORLD123]

@@bobbyg433 that’s what the sell outs would say

[@bobbyg433]

@@S0PHSWORLD123 its still true

[@noobsicko65]

The families were indeed ruined. Cant blame the Dodgers tho since they werent aware of it back then.

[@cedrickwinstead4303]

Lets go Dodgers la for life now i know more

[@boomdos4265]

Hell yeah orale orale! kick those mexicans out of their homes. LA All Day!

[@edgarcota3097]

Boom Dos to bad “Mexicans” run LA 🇲🇽🇺🇸💪🏻 suck it bitch

[@monthrusunv8759]

Very cold!!

[@stevenguzman4591]

i am a dodger fan in 2005 i was born i didn’t know they were in brooklyn

[@benjaminlibertarianscorpio]

Mexican Dodgers fans The irony

[@elmascavidal1797]

Did those people dirty..... Money 💰 is the root of all evil

[@brandomcastor2951]

El masca Vidal whats the root of money.........

[@gabrielmontez4690]

The LOVE of money...

[@savagedick8829]

You must hate earning money

[@elmascavidal1797]

Savage Dick 50/50 👆🏼🤣🤣

[@anthonygiesegh9545]

You are so right!! What used to make this country great has given way to a succeed at any cost environment no matter who or what is in the way! The ole' mighty dollar has stolen the souls of all who lead their life in this manner. I'm not saying that earning a dollar and succeeding is bad, it's how it's done that I'm so ashamed of this country for. So many very important major decisions are made on how it will affect the stock market and prices. Lives have no bearing on these decisions and that my friend can only be described by one word....evil!!! You can't take it with you and do you want to be remembered as part of the evil or a person who lead a meaningful life. Think about it, which are you?

[@davidcross701]

2:00 What I figure is, in retrospect and hindsight, the people that used to live there should have fought for fair compensation. Also, double the whatever the City offered... the man said $7,000, which was nothing or fair value. Law suits against the meager price. But instead they made it political. And lost to the reality that it was a lose situation. Now, still complaining on bad decision.

[@davidvillajr]

Go Dodgers!

[@3dbadboy1]

Wow, I had no idea. Wasn't anything at all done for those displaced families?

[@larry4111]

Under eminent domain, the houses were assessed and they were paid what was referred to as "fair market value" for the homes ($7000-9000 or so). Literally the same process as when freeways are built. They were then given first crack at the new homes to be built there. But the housing project was never built, and they could only move to homes in other neighborhoods - which ended up costing a lot more. In another doc, a man talked about how his family got $9000 and his dad thought they hit it big - only the house they moved into in Lincoln Heights cost $15,000.

[@0livia2oo2]

I wonder if any of the local residents became Giants fans because they lost their homes to the Dodgers

[@adrianreynoso2058]

Many did actually

[@charlesjwin]

The Dodgers didn't take their homes; the homes were razed in favor of new housing many years before LA tried to lure the Dodgers westward.

[@pigjubby1]

I don't see anybody protesting the 10, 605, 710, 60 and the 210 freeways. Thousands of home were demolished to make way for those freeways.

[@tonyparra8459]

Maybe even Angels fans

[@MarloSoBalJr]

​@@pigjubby1Because a freeway isn't a person or entity you can sue for reparations... 🤷🏾

[@williammize8270]

The uprooted story of my life change keeps happening and nothing changes it only get werse

[@maryMartinez1813]

And yes they torn down my house just for the dodgers, only the street names are still there, How about the first house there is 710 Cornell Street, Bernard Street, Lookout Dr. and so many more. We should set a tickets for life to all the families.

[@lildayxo]

Hard call monument so shady how you gone do that to people so fkd up

[@bboomer1948]

LA Dodger baseball fans owe it all to Norris Poulson. LA Mayor , '58.

[@michaelcap9550]

And Bob Moses in NY.

[@loyaltilltheend2500]

Can't believe LA communities root for this trash of a team after all this. Smh

[@steveo7372]

Bruh it’s 2021 that’s why 😂 no one gives a fuck anymore

[@Moreorlesss996]

It wasn’t the Dodgers fault dumbass.

[@aaron-damonkassner4715]

Trash of a team?!

[@loyaltilltheend2500]

Organization is that better?

[@noobsicko65]

The Dodgers were never affiliated with any of this. They didnt even know this happened.

[@kentclark5594]

Feel bad for the residents, but it's called PROGRESS. Eminent Domain was created for situations like this. Every Freeway, Public Bldg, had somebody's property there before. The residents should have been compensated more. Life ain't fair.

[@MM-qi5mk]

Eminent domain happens all the time for people wondering. The gov just says it’s ours now and gives you Pennies

[@Tony-so1zl]

This is why the Dodgers will forever be cursed

[@noobsicko65]

I mean they didnt even know it was happening

[@slivereaglexx353]

What about rams there where frist

[@techi9]

Dodger owner "Yeah there were displacements...but fuck them"

[@noobsicko65]

I think the mayor said that but idk. Someone else said.

[@rongileck5099]

Oh for shit sake, all this whining about what happened back then. It happened and it wasn't like the families moved out weren't compensated. Plus the Dodgers had nothing to do with it, something I've been told forever. Things change, countries change, governments change.

[@TheLightningRound]

Nobody: Fox: ♥️✨ gentrification ✨ ♥️

[@kylefuller6702]

It’s not evil unless you turn it into greed and put it more important than God

[@aaronwilliams6989]

Say it!

[@uncletrick1]

It wasn’t really the Dodgers fault though. That land was being cleared one way or another. It was either going to be turned into public housing or something else. The land was available only because the public housing project didn’t come through. Almost all the residents had been cleared out nefore it even got on O’Malley’s radar. It sucks, but the Dodgers didn’t create the situation of that land being available, that was local government that did that.

[@papatutti59]

Actually it is. In other videos about Chavez Ravine, O’Malley is taking a helicopter ride looking at the city and sees Chavez Ravine. He wants that land for the new Dodgers stadium. He fought to get that land.

[@veerchasm1]

Dirty deals and the red scare.

[@jessmet24]

I am a dodger fan and Mexican American and I know what happened but just like every true dodger fan I just look the other way like nothing happened

[@masterbader8718]

Yeah....like a COWAAARD!!!!!

[@aaronwilliams6989]

MAN! That is pretty hard!

[@gustavoaguilar1354]

They should get free season tickets

[@aaronwilliams6989]

For life, if they want them. And much more.

[@mdkutzler8495]

It should be noted that in the late 1950s and early '60s, 7,000. dollars was a big hunk of change. So it is not like LA stole the land.

[@jo0onvel]

the homeowners had no choice. what the hell do you mean lmfao

[@larry4111]

It's true that under eminent domain the people received "fair market value" for the homes, same as when a freeway is built. But the housing project was never built so the families had to move elsewhere. For example, a family that received $7000 found the cheapest home in Lincoln Heights for $15,000. That big hunk of change turned into a big hunk of debt. Not to mention the loss of the community after the people had been promised first crack at the new homes that were never built..

[@michelleelisabethhernandez3427]

So sad 😮😢😢😢

[@alarmservicepros]

I guess the "Mexicans" got the last laugh because they own LA now,lol.

[@Evan_Cardenas]

MURDER I'm just playing

[@mh-do3pe]

guarantee every bathroom in that stadium has graffiti etched on the mirror and toilet seat.Taggers are like dogs that urinate on fire hydrants one after another.

[@user-nv4gm1ev2n]

😂😂😂

[@natalierodriguez381]

they don’t actually

[@bobbowie9350]

the corrupt business of sports stadiums

[@noobsicko65]

They didnt know of the situation and unfortunately to late to find out about it. It sucks tho

[@kernalsander9395]

Reason why I hate Dodgers

[@noobsicko65]

But they didnt know

[@Davidjon1946]

The genocide stadium 😥

[@benjaminlibertarianscorpio]

First LA MLB team was the Los Angeles Angels in South LA

[@Erlov71]

That dump would look so much better with all blue seating

[@burtmacklinfbi8824]

Erwin925 right

[@805livin4]

Erwin925 nope the way it is, is the way it should stay or else it would look just bland like other ball parks like Yankees stadium or the KC royals stadium...

[@larryaldama1673]

Very sad 😔

[@And-the-new]

Let’s be truthful! It is stolen land!

[@williammize8270]

7000? Really that's a joke tommy lasorda boo🤣😂😅😭🤡😎🤓⁉️❓❓🚭🚭👑🙂🎉🎉😗🤭

[@jeanniearechiga3630]

It’s not Travers ravine it’s battle very Lalama and Bishop🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🤬😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736]

Great Idea! Throw people out of their home to build a baseball stadium. Gives new meaning to "If you build it, they will come"

[@sgtpepper1138]

It was originally for a housing project, it's like in the video n stuff. Dodger Stadium came later.

[@JohnSmith-it4sv]

$7,000 in 1957 was a lot

[@larry4111]

But the housing project was never built so the families had to move elsewhere. For example, a family that received $7000 found the cheapest home in Lincoln Heights for $15,000. That big hunk of change turned into a big hunk of debt. Not to mention the loss of the community after the people had been promised first crack at the new homes that were never built.

[@typesfan6590]

It's the best and most beautiful stadium in all of pro sports.

[@marquise7200]

It’s crazy we have these same stories about these black neighborhoods but yet they tell us to shut tf up man. Y’all need to learn Y’all history y’all great grandparents was evil.

[@ivanmorelos5536]

I'm a Padres fan and im laughing at this 😂😂😂😂😂

[@a333z]

FREE FIRE KALAHARI MAP 🙂

[@sirkoes187]

HAhaha. I thought is was something sad. This was awesome. Stop complaining. Fuck. People move all the time.

[@alexanderdarmandjian967]

Honestly that neighborhood most likely would of been a gang neighborhood ….so I think it’s better that they turned it into dodgers stadium

[@senilejoe7932]

If they are Mexicans why aren’t they in Mexico

[@S0PHSWORLD123]

Oh that was once Mexico too but they also took that

[@jakesalazar4561]

@Dennis Schreiber you’re a fucking idiot 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@aaronwilliams6989]

@Dennis Schreiber The south west was once part of Mexico.

[@pigjubby1]

@@S0PHSWORLD123 Mexico is still there. They can go.

[@WhatAreColors]

based

[@burtmacklinfbi8824]

Wow, that’s kinda bullshit

[@alexandercabrera2787]

Glad astros beat dodgers

[@Jameswilllee]

Alexander Cabrera by beating a trash can. Have fun rooting for your cheaters next season. Can’t wait for MLB to hand down the punishment to make the Astros irrelevant again.

[@sgtpepper1138]

Fucking POS cheaters.

[@urielluna8788]

The astro cheating or not are a way better team ! Not like the los angeles chokers GOT BEAT BY THE NATIONALS WILD CARD TEAM THANKS AGAIN KERSHAW 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@urielluna8788]

@Joseph S Ok fkn smart guy so by stealing signs and hitting a trash can that automatically makes the bat hit the ball fkn idiot! thanks again Kershaw los chokers

[@urielluna8788]

here we go again los chokers still letting all the big time chokers fans down even in spring training!👎

[@Rebel-eq7ul]

Such an ugly stadium and situation

[@oscarhr16]

A lot of history in that stadium but that place is a dump.

[@hiesenbergwalt181]

Cancel the Dodgers

[@noobsicko65]

They didnt know.. unfortunately