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Harrelson’s first move is to change the Dodgers’ name back to the Robins. He has always found the name “Dodgers” to be inappropriate for a baseball team and now that he owns them, he can finally fix that. The newspapers have already begun calling after the Daily News broke the story that the Dodgers would stay in Brooklyn. Talk of building a new stadium has started already. Harrelson has had his men pay Robert Moses a visit to convince him to allow the Robins to build a new stadium in Brooklyn. Moses’ refusal had been one of the reasons for O’Malley’s sickening decision, but Harrelson had better means and more will, and he knew he could change the man’s mind. If nothing else, he knew he could threaten him politically if he needed to.

Yes, the Robins would stay in Brooklyn, and they would be Harrelson’s team. He would control them. He would hire the best talent, he would make the decisions. They would be his new favorite toy. He should have done this years ago, and was ashamed it had taken the threat of the city losing the team for him to make the necessary expenditures. But it was his now, and that was what was important.