Brooklyn Dodger News Alerts

O'Malley a Hall of Famer? Brooklyn says no Napa Valley Register - Napa,CA,USA
Walter O’Malley, the owner of the Dodgers from 1950 to 1997, did more than just move his Brooklyn Dodgers out of New York in 1958. ...

On This Day in History: August 1 Ebbets Field Goes Opera Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 08-01-2008 EBBETS FIELD — On Aug. 1, 1925, open air performances of opera started at Ebbets ...

Amateur baseball remembered St. James Plaindealer - St. James,MN,USA
By Mark Anderson, Sports Writer Richard Bolin was there when St. James signed Cy Buker, who had played with the Brooklyn Dodgers two years before. ...

DILBECK: Former Dodgers owner O'Malley finally gets vindication Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Attendance was in decline, Ebbets Field was small and badly aging. But Robert Moss, the powerful head of New York's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, ...

Known for move to LA, O'Malley moves into Hall Ventura County Star - Camarillo,CA,USACOOPERSTOWN, NY
— Former Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. ...

Late Dodgers Owner Inducted into Hall of Fame ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
O'Malley's association with the Dodgers began in 1932, when he was assigned to the team's Board of Directors by the Brooklyn Trust Co., at a time when the ...

Tom Lasorda still bleeds Dodger blue after all these years Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
From there I was sent to one of the Dodgers' three triple-A affiliates, the Montreal Royals. In 1954 I had finally made my way to Brooklyn and was playing ...

Walter O'Malley treated Dodgers, and fans, like family Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The Brooklyn Dodgers owner was buying the most menial Dodgers employee a World Series ring commemorating the Dodgers' first world championship. ...

O’Malley and Kuhn Enter Hall, Forever Linked by Bold Moves New York Times - United States
The Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley exploited baseball’s manifest destiny by moving the franchise to Los Angeles in 1958, still angering the Brooklyn fans. ...

On further review, O'Malley got bum rap Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
In the HBO documentary "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush," New York University president John Sexton said, "Walter O'Malley is down there in the ...

Making the big move to the HOF Daily Pennsylvanian - Philadelphia,PA,USA
In 1957, he moved the Dodgers from the rundown Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, where he built, privately financed, and helped to design ...

When pigs fly BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
The memory of the Dodgers desertion of Brooklyn is still vivid for the many former Brooklyn Dodger fans in the stands at Keyspan Park. ...

‘Shotgun’ Shuba returns to Brooklyn BrooklynPapers.com - NY, United States
Shuba was on hand for a signing of his book, “My Memories as a Brooklyn Dodger,” but one of those memories was a single, natural act of humanity that came ...