President Eisenhower is about to throw out the first pitch at Ebbets Field for game 1 of the 1956 World Series
President Eisenhower is about to throw out the first pitch at Ebbets Field for game 1 of the 1956...
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President Eisenhower is about to throw out the first pitch at Ebbets Field for game 1 of the 1956...
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Walter O’Malley Essentials Positions: Bats: Throws: Weight: Born: Year: 1903 in New York, NY USA Died: 8 9 1979 in Rochester, MN USA Debut: Last Game: Hall of Fame: Inducted as a Pioneer/Executive in 2008 by Veterans Full...
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1957 – Club President Walter O’Malley offically announces that the Brooklyn Dodgers will play in Los Angeles in 1958.
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1957 – Walter O’Malley says the Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958.
Read MoreDuring the New York Baseball Writers Association meeting in New York, Walter O’Malley passes a note to Cubs owner Phil Wrigley, who controls the territorial rights to LA, offering Brooklyn’s Texas League team in Fort Worth in return for the Cubs’ Los Angeles PCL minor league franchise. The swap of farm teams will be announced on February 21, clearing the path for the Dodgers to move to the City of Angels.
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The Kratter Corporation grants Walter O’Malley an additional two years on the three-year lease on Ebbets Field agreed to last year. The new timeline means the ball club has a home in Brooklyn until 1961, but the extension may have been prompted by the Dodgers owner’s uncertainty about L.A’s ability to secure the land needed to build a stadium if the team moved to the West Coast.
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The sale of the historical, but out-of-date, Ebbets Field to real estate developer Marvin Kratter becomes one of the first indications the ballpark is nearing its end, and, perhaps, a harbinger of the Dodgers’ departure from Brooklyn. As part of the deal, club owner Walter O’Malley is given a three-year lease, with an additional two years to be added in January, to stay and play at the Flatbush facility, which means the ‘Bums’ have a potential home in the borough until 1961.
Read MoreFebruary 6, 1956 – Supporting the Wagner-Cashmore plan to build a $30-million downtown...
Read MoreWalter O’Malley, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, wanted to build a domed stadium in Brooklyn...
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In a tryout with the Pirates, a Koufax fastball broke the thumb of his catcher, and Pirate G.M....
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Red Barber resigns as a Brooklyn Dodger broadcaster and will take the ‘catbird’ seat with the rival New York Yankees. The ‘Old Redhead’ is reported to have left the team because he was upset with Brooklyn owner Walter O’Malley, who refused to support him when he failed to get a higher fee from Gillette, the sponsor of the 1953 World Series on television.
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1952 – Norman Bel Geddes, after designing a 5,000 seat complex for the Brooklyn Dodgers in Vero Beach, Florida, states that team owner Walter O’Malley has asked for a stadium design for the team. It is to have a retractable dome, garage, automatic hotdog vending machines, and artificial turf that can be painted in different colors.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Oct 26, 1950 | Owners | 0 |
Walter O’Malley succeeds Branch Rickey as president of the Dodgers. O’Malley, who had offered to buy Rickey’s share of the club to become majority owner, is forced to pay more money when ‘the Mahatma’, in a final act of defiance about being told to leave the organization, offers his share of the team to a friend for a million dollars, a deal the new president believes, but can’t prove, to be as “fraudulent as a four-dollar bill.”
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