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O’Malley also wrote to noted architect and designer Capt. Emil Praeger on May 17, 1955. A Navy captain, Praeger had served as the consulting engineer for the structural and foundation design for the White House renovation in 1949 and was considered an authority for bridges, foundations and parkways. They had worked together when O’Malley hired Praeger to design and engineer Holman Stadium at the team’s spring training headquarters, Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Florida in 1952-53. “I definitely would prefer a translucent dome to one of shell concrete and I did a little pencil pushing, which is enclosed. Look it over and see if it has any practical possibilities,” O’Malley wrote.
One week later, O’Malley again wrote the following message to Praeger, “Enclosed is a copy of letter dated April 18, 1955 to Harold Boeschenstein, President of Owens-Corning...I have just completed a very interesting general discussion with William Keller, Vice-President of that company, and his associates, and I think the trail now takes us to you. Mr. Keller would like to meet with you at your early convenience and discuss some of the problems. It might be that at a later date I should ask Mr. Blancke, President of Celanese Corporation; Vic Williams, Vice-President of Monsanto, Herbert Smith of U.S. Rubber Company and perhaps Chief Wilson of ALCOA, as there are some problems involving fire retarding, quality of resins and pigments to be gone into. For the time being, our problem is one of structural practability and methods of erection.”
Thus, the stage was set for Fuller to jump into the picture and lend his expertise as he responded to O’Malley on June 14, 1955.
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