| Through his years as President of the Dodgers, Walter O’Malley corresponded with numerous individuals, business leaders, government officials, friends and entertainers. A wide selection of O’Malley’s business and personal correspondence is included in this section of historic documents. An alphabetical listing of key individuals mentioned in the historic document section follows:
Chester Allen
Member, Brooklyn Sports Center Authority; President, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce; President, Kings County Trust Company
Robert Baldwin
Mayor, Borough of South Plainfield, NJ
Sidney Bingham
Member, New York City Board of Transportation
Robert E. Blum
Member, Brooklyn Sports Center Authority; Vice President, Abraham & Straus
Brooklyn Sports Center Authority
established by the 1957 State Legislature, empowered to issue $30 million in tax-exempt bonds to redevelop downtown Brooklyn and identify a new stadium site for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The three appointed members: Chairman Charles J. Mylod, President of Goelet Realty Company; Chester Allen, President of the Kings County Trust Co.; Robert E. Blum, a Vice President of Abraham & Straus
Peter Campbell Brown
Corporation Counsel, City of New York
John Cashmore
President, Borough of Brooklyn
George Christopher
Mayor, City of San Francisco
Clarke-Rapuano
New York consulting engineers and architectural design firm
Braven Dyer
Columnist, Los Angeles Times
Vincent X. Flaherty
Columnist, Los Angeles Examiner
John Anson Ford
Chairman, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
R. Buckminster Fuller
Architect, engineer, inventor of the geodesic dome
John Gibson
President, Los Angeles City Council
Thomas M. Goodfellow
General Manager/President, Long Island Railroad
Kenneth Hahn
Los Angeles County Supervisor, Second District
Harold Kennedy
Counsel, Los Angeles County
Eugene Keogh
Member, United States Congress; comments on Brooklyn baseball situation in Congressional Record 7/2/57
Madigan-Hyland
Consulting Engineers, Long Island City, NY; retained in 1957 by Brooklyn Sports Center Authority for stadium feasibility study
George V. McLaughlin
Member, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority; President, Brooklyn Trust Company
Robert Moses
Chairman, Construction Coordinator, City of New York, Office of Committee on Slum Clearance; Chairman, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (1934-68); Parks Commissioner for the City of New York (1934-60)
James A. Mulvey
Vice President, Stockholder, Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers; President, Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Charles J. Mylod
Chairman, Brooklyn Sports Center Authority; President, Goelet Realty Company
Sylvan Oestreicher
New York tax attorney; Los Angeles Dodgers’ Board of Directors
Arthur E. “Red” Patterson
Dodger Vice President/Assistant General Manager, Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers
Walter C. Peterson
City Clerk, City of Los Angeles
Norris Poulson
Mayor, City of Los Angeles
Capt. Emil Praeger
Engineer who designed proposed new ballparks in Brooklyn; designed Holman Stadium in Vero Beach, FL. and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles with his firm, Praeger-Kavanagh Engineers, New York City
Charles Rickerson
Brooklyn businessman (real estate and insurance) who wrote letter on 1/4/57 to Borough President John Cashmore regarding the land in Ft. Greene Park
Clifford Rishell
Mayor, City of Oakland
Nelson Rockefeller
New York businessman, later became Governor of New York
Eero Saarinen
Led architectural study for auditorium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; designed Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
Frank Schroth
Publisher, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle; Editor, The New York News
Joseph Sharkey
Member, New York City Council
George Spargo
Assistant to the Chairman, City of New York, Office of Committee on Slum Clearance; Member, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority
Abe Stark
President, Brooklyn City Council
Horace Stoneham
Owner, New York/San Francisco Giants (1936-76)
James Thomson
Allied Maintenance Co.; in charge of maintenance at Ebbets Field
William Tracy
Vice Chairman, Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority
Charles Vanacore
Real estate broker; called the Pennsylvania Avenue property to Walter O’Malley’s attention in January 1957
Tracy Voorhees
Brooklyn attorney; wrote 1956 letter to Brooklyn Borough President John Cashmore regarding the Albany Authority Bill
Robert Wagner
Mayor, City of New York
Dick Walsh
Dodger Secretary of Minor League Operations; later Dodger Vice President, Director of Stadium Operations
Rosalind Wyman
Member, Los Angeles City Council, Fifth District |
