Description One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O\'Malley (1903-79) is best remembered--and still reviled by many--for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
About the Author Andy Mc Cue is the author of Baseball by the Books: The Complete History and Bibliography of Baseball Fiction and is a former president of the Society for American Baseball Research..
He also departs from the overly sentimentalized accounts of O\'Malley as either villain or angel and reveals him first and foremost as a rational, hardheaded businessman, who was a major force in baseball for three decades and whose management and marketing practices radically changed the shape of the game.
In Mover and Shaker Andy Mc Cue presents for the first time an objective, complete, and nuanced account of O\'Malley\'s life.
Later his personal story was distorted by some New York sportswriters, who hated him for moving the Dodgers.
When he entered the public eye, the self-constructed family background and early life he presented was gilded.
Yet much of the O\'Malley story leading up to the Dodgers\' move is unknown or created from myth, and there is substantially more to the man.
Description One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O\'Malley (1903-79) is best remembered--and still reviled by many--for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles
