Mets leave amazing legacy for father & son
20.05.12
Ryan's eye reached the top floor and panned right to the two middle windows, and there behind the modern shades lay a vanished Brooklyn. In that forgotten old Irish-Catholic ghetto, Jack Kennedy was still President. Astronauts had conquered space.
And the Yankees were the only baseball team in New York.
Inside, in that creaky living room between those two rattling windows, an old RCA Victor TV sat on the worn linoleum floor, a brown Philco radio resting on top.
Ryan's father had spent the five years since 1957 brooding through Brooklyn's Dark Ages after the Dodgers were hijacked west by a quisling Irishman named Walter O'Malley.
Source: New York Daily News