Word: ballpark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malley's opponents still figure that they have a few more turns at bat. Week's end saw the start of hearings on a series of taxpayers' suits to stop the Dodgers from building their new ballpark. But if the results of the referendum stand up in court, unofficial scorers will surely write into the record book that it was a portly old relief pitcher named Walter O'Malley who came on in the final innings to win the game...
...Angeles Dodgers stumbled through their first home stand last week, Smith's amiable hyperbole was borne out by the remorseless arithmetic of the score card. The looming left-field screen that was supposed to turn Memorial Coliseum into a big-league ballpark (TIME, April 28) had become the biggest boon to batters since the rabbit ball. At the end of eight home games, 26 homers had got lost on the far side of the screen only 250 ft. away...
...major leagues westward to the California gold fields. Nothing betrays the brash architect of baseball's biggest revolution since a Brooklyn pitcher named "Candy" Cummings fired the first curve and separated the men from the bushers. A Bronx-born Giant fan who seldom bothered to go to a ballpark, Walter O'Malley went to work for the Dodgers as an attorney. "Why, I don't think he even knows what Duke Snider makes," snorts the Dodgers' Vice President and General Manager Emil ("Buzzy") Bavasi. "He leaves all that to me." But tomorrow he may well...
...York Giant fans learned that they may suffer a final indignity. Not only has their team bugged out for San Francisco, but a collection of ambitious Westerners is planning to invade the Polo Grounds. Western Racing Inc. has announced a goldplated, $15 million plan for turning the old ballpark into a dog-racing track. Next requirement: the approval of the New York state legislature...
...half so successful as Hypnotist Edelman. Wary citizens of Los Angeles were not the easy marks he thought them, and they insisted on a time-consuming referendum before they would sell him the land in Chavez Ravine that he wants for a ballpark. Wrigley Field, the only L.A. playground O'Malley now owns, is too small for big-league crowds, and Walter has been buttering up the city fathers of Pasadena, trying to rent their Rose Bowl. If his gift of gab fails him, he will have to fall back on Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum. Either stadium could...