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Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion

Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion

One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter Oâ€™Malley (1903â€“79) is best rememberedâ€”and still reviled by manyâ€”for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the Oâ€™Malley story leading up to the Dodgersâ€™ move is unknown or created from myth, and there is substantially more to the man. When he entered the public eye, the self-constructed family background and early life he presented was gilded. Later his personal story was distorted by some New York sportswriters, who hated him for moving the Dodgers.Â Â
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In Mover and Shaker Andy McCue presents for the first time an objective, complete, and nuanced account of Oâ€™Malleyâ€™s life. He also departs from the overly sentimentalized accounts of Oâ€™Malley as either villain or angel and reveals him first and foremost as a rational, hardheaded businessman, who was a major force in baseball for three decades and whose management and marketing practices radically changed the shape of the game.
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Country USA
Brand University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer University of Nebraska Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 57161
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780803278424
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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