This Day in Walter O’Malley History: February 26

A three-column photo appears in the Brooklyn Eagle noting “Nothing could keep these Brooklyn residents from enjoying the zestful sport of tobogganing.” The photo shows Walter and Kay O’Malley on a toboggan with friends Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Mylod, Mr. and Mrs. Edward McLoughlin and Mr. and Mrs. Everett McCooey. “They journeyed to Skytop, Pennsylvania, last weekend, where they hit the trails at the Skytop Club,” the newspaper’s caption read under the heading “No Snow Here, So Brooklynites Go to Mountains”. Brooklyn Eagle, “No Snow Here, So Brooklynites Go to Mountains”, February 26, 1939

Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson and L.A. County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn issue the following statement on their plans to visit Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Florida to encourage the Dodgers to move to Los Angeles. “There was immediate and enthusiastic agreement that there must be a joint effort by the city and county to bring big league baseball to the Los Angeles area as soon as possible. Along with other representatives of both the city and the county, we plan to go to Florida next week to demonstrate to the officials of the Brooklyn Dodgers the sincerity of our interests in bringing a major league franchise here. We also wish, to determine, if possible, the terms and conditions under which a transfer of the Dodger franchise could be arranged.” Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1957

Walter O’Malley receives 48.1 percent of votes on the 2003 composite National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot conducted by the Veterans Committee. O’Malley places second overall and first among executives. For election, candidates are required to garner 75 percent of the votes on ballots cast.