It was fifty years ago tonight that one of the worst and most shameful moments in baseball history occurred. The Brooklyn Dodgers, the original America's Team, played its last game in Ebbets Field and then fled to Tinseltown leaving Flatbush broken hearted. Mike Todd, in USA Today, recounts the tragic event. Rotten!

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The heart of the great Brooklyn Dodgers lineup, from left, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Roy Campanella on June 7, 1951. (Corbis)