Los Angeles Dodgers become first team with their own plane

Los Angeles Dodgers airplane 1957

Brooklyn Dodgers Plane

January 4, 1957, The Brooklyn Dodgers become the first team to purchase an aircraft, buying a 44-passenger Convair 440 two-engine airplane for $770,000. The team, from 1949 through 1957, had flown in a 20-seat DC-3, a gift from Bud Holman, who won the plane from Eastern Airlines in a crap game, according to legend, and gave it to team owner Walter O’Malley.

The Dodgers become the first team with their own plan during regular season road trips.

 

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