“I, like so many others in baseball, will be forever grateful to Walter O’Malley for giving us the opportunity to prove we could do a job in the major leagues. As a boss, O’Malley never interfered with the organization. When he gave a man a job, he never looked over his shoulder.”

Buzzie Bavasiformer Dodger Executive Vice President and General ManagerDaily News, New York; Los Angeles Times, August 10, 1979