Walter O’Malley

Walter O'Malley (1903-1979) was the owner of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball teams from 1950 to 1979. He was a lawyer and businessman who played a key role in the Dodgers' success and the expansion of Major League Baseball to the West Coast. Born in the Bronx, New York, he attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana and the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a law degree from Fordham University in 1930 O'Malley became a director of the Dodgers in 1932 and legal adviser in 1943, became an owner in 1945 and helped sign Jackie Robinson, breaking baseball's color barrier. He moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958. passed the presidency on to his son Peter in 1970