Quotes
After sweeping the New York Yankees in the 1963 World Series, Sandy Koufax (l-r), Walter O’Malley, Don Drysdale and Johnny Podres are all smiles at the Dodger victory party on October 7.© Bettman/Corbis
“I’ve never quite known what the right word was for Walter. Magnetic? Dynamic? He was all of that. We used to talk quite a bit about business things. I’d ask his advice and he was always helpful. He’d never say, ‘This should be your decision,’ but I always came away knowing what it should be. I suppose a lot of people didn’t like him, but I think everyone respected him.”
Don DrysdaleLos Angeles Times, August 10, 1979