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October 30, 2006

Walter O'Malley

Omalley_home The official web site of Walter O'Malley is extraordinary in it's depth and scope. It's more than just a monument to the man who brought the Dodgers to L.A.; it's also a history of the team, with all kinds of nifty multimedia. It includes a flash presentation on the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers, a thorough history of the construction of Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine, a six-minute biographical film narrated by Vin Scully, lots of primary documents (things like letters from Ty  Cobb and Richard Nixon to O'Malley), a section on the Beatles playing Dodger Stadium in August 1966, and on and on. Terrific stuff.