Will the TB Rays become this generation’s Brooklyn Dodgers?

Leave it to uber-author Peter Golenbock to weave the deep and visceral history of the Brooklyn Dodgers (and their departure from Brooklyn) to the plight of the Tampa Bay Rays.

For fans of the Tampa Bay Rays, especially those who live in St. Petersburg, history is threatening to repeat itself. After a season in which the Rays won 98 games, team owner Stuart Sternberg — a Brooklyn boy himself — announced during the heart of the pennant race that he was dismantling the team to cut the payroll. [...]

St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster insists the Rays live up to the signed contract that keeps the Rays at the Trop until 2027. He says he’ll sue to keep the Rays in St. Pete. Shades of Robert Moses. Sternberg, who doesn’t appear to be bluffing, says he can wait a few years for a resolution, and after that there’s no telling what he will do.

Golenbock’s story is “must click reading” for all fans.

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