A deep, deep sadness. You know there's a theologian named Michael Novack who's quoted as saying that 'a community is better off losing its opera house, or its museum, or its CHURCH' - here's a theologian speaking - 'than its ball team'. Brooklyn has never been the same since the Dodgers were taken away. (George Plimpton)

A deep, deep sadness. You know there's a theologian named Michael Novack who's quoted as saying that 'a community is better off losing its opera house, or its museum, or its CHURCH' - here's a theologian speaking - 'than its ball team'. Brooklyn has never been the same since the Dodgers were taken away.

George Plimpton

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