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ANGELES -- The Dodgers were front and center in breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball, but the early movement involved more than Jackie Robinson. When Robinson was signed by Dodgers president Branch Rickey and owner Walter O'Malley out of...
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Montreal. A banker named C. Arnholt Smith owned the minor-league San Diego Padres, and he got the new major-league franchise. Shortly afterward, Smith hired Buzzie Bavasi, then running the Dodgers, to run the new Padres. Bavasi wanted to stay with the...
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While billionaires line up to bid for the Dodgers, Frank McCourt should sign Prince Fielder - MLB
ESPN
The Dodgers are to baseball what the beaches are to California. Despite the cracks and chips, this is and always will be the franchise of Jackie Robinson and Sandy Koufax and Vin Scully; it is what Walter O'Malley wanted it to become when he moved the...
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About Walter O'Malley
Wikipedia
Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. He served as Brooklyn Dodgers chief legal counsel when Jackie Robinson broke the racial color barrier in 1947. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major... Full Article
