 To put pressure on the city, during the 1955 season, O'Malley announced that the team would play seven regular season games and one exhibition game at Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium in 1956.Moses and the City considered this an empty threat, and did not believe O'Malley would go through with moving the team from New York City.After teams began to travel to and from games by air instead of train, it became possible to include locations in the far west.