Brooklyn Dodgers fans be warned, there’s a picture of O’Malley.
Dedicated sleepers and their own private diner - the only way to fly!
Chuck
I think the last time a team used the train to travel to a World Series was in 1961 when the New York Yankees went to Cincinnati on the NYC’s Ohio State Limited.When I was growing up one of my nieghbors was Jim Pollard who played for the then Minneapolis Lakers of the NBA. One time in 1953 his wife took their son Jackie and myself to the Milwaukee Road depot in downtown Minneapolis to pick Jim up. He was coming off an East Coast road trip and arrived on the Hiawatha. I thought how lucky he was to be able to travel by train so often; I don’t think he agreed with my seven year old logic
Because of its geographical compactness, teams in the NHL stayed with train travel until into the 1960’s. This, of course, all changed with the 1966 expansion from six to twelve teams.
Yes, if you look at the NHL back then: New York to Boston to Montreal to Toronto to Detroit to Chicago, an overnight between each city, then reverse. Baseball was similar, thus the reason there were no major league teams west of the Mississippi (except St. Louis). Up to the mid 50s AL was Boston, NY, Phila, Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago, and Cleveland; NL Boston, NY, Phila, Pitttsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago. Air transportation changed a lot of things.