It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?
Joe FlahertyWhen the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.
Joe FlahertyThey miss Rachel and Lillian Rose every minute of every day. It doesn't bring them any comfort to see him standing there and know that their daughter and granddaughter are gone.
Joe FlahertyFarrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.
Joe Flaherty