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...took the Dodgers' President Walter O'Malley five consecutive days of negotiation and four considerably different "final offers" before he managed to rent a Los Angeles home for his footloose ball club. The site: the monstrous (101,528 seats) L.A. Coliseum. The price, to be paid to the city and county of Los Angeles and to the state of California: $200,000 a year for 1958 and 1959, plus 10% of the gate, and all concession profits for the first nine games of each season following an opening series with the San Francisco Giants...
...Manhattan's Coliseum last week a record number of marine builders (397) launched the 48th National Motor Boat Show wlth a record number of boats (455). The boatbuilders were optimistic for 1958, expected that spending of waterborne Americans would top last year's record $1.91 billion...
...Coliseum Criticized...
BROOKLYN, Jan. 21--Dodgers' vice-president Buzzie Bavasi today came to the defense of the 250-foot left field fence in the Los Angeles Coliseum and, at the same time, took a verbal swing at the complaining National League pitchers...
Antonelli and Spahn were among the hurlers who yesterday derided the proximity of the Coliseum's left field barrier. Bob Friend of Pittsburgh also joined in as did other stars, past and present, who said the game was turning into a "Hitters' paradise and pitchers' nightmare...