Topic: Walter O'Malley
Brooklyn wailed when the Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1958. Consider the position of Walter O'Malley in 1957. After purchasing a property (the Dodgers) in receivership,historically mismanaged and with more failures than successes behind it,after having built that ...
August 9, 1979, Rochester, Minnesota), American lawyer who was the principal owner of the National League Brooklyn Dodgers professional baseball team (from 1958 the Los Angeles Dodgers). As owner of the Dodgers, he played a role in two of the key events ...
If you stop for coffee at a Brooklyn establishment that has yet to succumb to the gentrification that's swept large swaths of the borough in recent years, you might hear an old-timer prattling on about the three most evil men of ...
Immediately following Walter O'Malley's announcement that the Dodgers would play seven regular season games in Jersey City during the 1956 season, New York Giants' owner Horace Stoneham reminded folks that his team also could use a new baseball facility. Mr ...
Kuhn, O'Malley and 3 Others Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame; Marvin Miller SnubbedEven one of the men who followed Bowie Kuhn as baseball commissioner thinks Marvin Miller was snubbed by the Hall of Fame.Bud Selig commended the Hall voters ...
Baseball's regular season winds up this weekend, and with the New York Mets in the midst of what could turn out to be a historic meltdown, Gothamites have been consoling themselves with the fact that at least the pinstriped half of ...
