Walter O'Malley

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Walter Francis O'Malley (born October 9, 1903 in Bronx , New York City , † August 9, 1979 in Rochester , Minnesota ) was an American lawyer of Irish descent and building contractor , who mainly owned the Brooklyn Dodgers , later Los Angeles Dodgers , twice influenced American sports history, because through his influence with Jackie Robinson in 1947 an African-American got a major league baseball contract for the first time and because in 1958 he had the financially and athletically extremely successful Dodgers relocate from New York City to Los Angeles .

Life

O'Malley attended Jamaica High School in Queens , earned his high school diploma at the influential Culver Academy before he attended the University of Pennsylvania 's Bachelor , at the Columbia University 's Master and finally at the Fordham University in New York City in 1930 his Dr. jur. made. Since his parents had lost their fortune in the economic crisis in 1929, he had to struggle to assert himself. With the help of the Democrats , he got public contracts for his construction company and was able to organize cheap takeovers as a bankruptcy administrator , which enabled him to build up a considerable fortune. In 1932 he became administrative director and later also legal counsel for the Dodgers. In 1945 he bought into the Dodgers. In 1950 he had the majority of the shares and became president, so that he could order the move of the Dodgers to the west coast against considerable public opposition. In Los Angeles, the Dodgers became the first baseball club with over 3 million viewers a year. In 1970 he transferred his stake in the Dodgers to his son Peter. During the presidency of the O'Malley family (1945-1998), the Dodgers won the National Baseball League championship six times in New York and nine times in Los Angeles . As the influential owner of an important club, he had significant influence on the selection of Commissioners William D. Eckert and Bowie Kuhn (in 1965 and 1969). In 2008 he was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame . In December 1999, The Sporting News voted him the eleventh most powerful person in the sport of the 20th century. For ABC Sports , O'Malley was one of the ten most influential personalities in sport of the 20th century. The O'Malley family had a significant financial influence in the railroad, construction and real estate industries.

literature

  • Michael D'Antonio : Forever Blue. The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles . Riverheads Books, New York 2009.
  • Dorinson, Joseph and Joram Warmund (Eds.): Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream . ME Sharpe, October 1998, ISBN 0-7656-0317-9 , pp. 166-168. , accessed online at google books on 2019-11-22
  • Peter Golenbock: Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers . GP Putnam's Sons, New York 1984, ISBN 0-399-12846-8 .
  • Rudy Marzano: The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s: How Robinson, MacPhail, Reiser and Rickey Changed Baseball . McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina 2005, ISBN 0-7864-1987-3 .
  • Andy McCue: Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska 2014, ISBN 0-8032-4508-4 .
  • Robert Murphy: After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball . Union Square Press, New York 2009, ISBN 1-4027-6068-X .
  • Carl E. Prince: Brooklyn's Dodgers: The Bums, The Borough and the Best of Baseball 1947–1957 . Oxford University Press, New York 1996, ISBN 0-19-509927-3 .
  • Michael Shapiro: The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Penant Race Together . Doubleday, New York 2003, ISBN 0-385-50152-8 .
  • Stout, Glenn (Richard A. Johnson photos and editing), The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 2004, ISBN 978-0618213559 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. Competitive sport. 18: 1, pp. 43-47 (1988) ; 2, pp. 47-50 . 17th June 2016
  2. ↑ Peter O'Malley, 30-year old son of the president, Walter F. O'Malley, was promoted today to the post of executive vice president of the Los Angeles Dodgers. . In: The New York Times , December 19, 1968. Retrieved November 22, 2016. 
  3. ^ Baseball's Blue Sale , Time. January 20, 1997. Retrieved November 22, 2016. “By transplanting the beloved Bums to California in 1958, the unsentimental Walter O'Malley had ushered the era of Big Business into baseball; last week Peter claimed that the current game's corporate-scale economics were forcing him to sell. " 
  4. ↑ Gurnick, Ken: O'Malley family rejoices in Hall election . MLB Advanced Media, LP. December 3, 2007. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on. 22nd November 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / walteromalley.com
personal data
SURNAME O'Malley, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Malley, Walter Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sports official, entrepreneur, and owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1979
Place of death Rochester , Minnesota