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The Walter O’Malley File (28 photos)
Legendary baseball magnate was unjustifiably blamed for taking the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles: with Mrs. Douglass MacArthur at 7th game of 1955 World Series, going over 1957-58 Chavez Ravine plans (2), welcomed to LA (1957), announcing they would play their 1958 home games in Wrigley Field, 1958 voter proposition r.e. Chavez Ravine (3), moving into LA Coliseum (4), Junior Gilliam trade?, LA mayor wooing him, selling Dodger Stadium for $33M? (1963), Japanese baseball kiss (1958), and looking over proposed Dodger Stadium image (1958). With such celebrities as Ernie Banks (1960), Joe E. Brown, Roy Campanella, Warren Giles, Horace Stoneham right after their move (1957), Nelson Rockefeller trying to get him to stay on Brooklyn (1957), Cronin and Giles, Drysdale and Alston, Alston 1962 Opening Day and more. Overall EX-MT and 7x9”.
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