L.A., Here They Came
The Dodgers move to California, and the world follows
In July, California's Department of Finance released a report predicting that the state's population, fueled by the growth in the Latino population, would explode by nearly 75 percent in 2050 to nearly 60 million—a country, as someone said, masquerading as a state.
If history is any indication, one thing that isn't likely to change, however, is L.A.'s love affair with the Dodgers, which began 50 years ago and endures today. Two seasons after arriving on the West Coast, the Dodgers broke Brooklyn's heart once again by defeating the Chicago White Sox to win the 1959 World Series. The stadium O'Malley so desperately tried to build in New York remains a model of modernity even today. The only question now, as California continues to grow, is how much harder it will be to get season tickets to the game.
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