He also felt a difference in the atmosphere around the team, one that he attributed to theanticipation of the move to Brooklyn, an anticipation he shared, having spent a good bit of his childhood in the borough, first near Prospect Park, then as a teenager visiting his sister in Marine Park.
This post was written by Elizabeth Good Christopherson, the president and CEO of the Rita Allen Foundation, in anticipation of the 2013 Ashoka Future Forum on May 30-31 in Washington, D.