 Walter O’Malley as Santa Claus, drawn by cartoonist Karl Hubenthal on December 20, 1957, is perplexed how to leave his Christmas gift of a major league team for Los Angeles. “Santa Claus” O’Malley brings the Dodgers to Los Angeles for the 1958 season, but actions of the Coliseum Commission and Proposition B have tied knots in the Christmas stocking.

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