Peter O'Malley donates 70 boxes of his father Walter's documents and photographs, providing a road map of the Dodgers franchise from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum turned 85 on Wednesday, and a birthday gift as weighty as it was generous was dispatched to Cooperstown, N.Y., by the family of legendary Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley. Seventy back-breaking boxes of documents and photographs comprise the Walter O'Malley Archives, providing a road map of the Dodgers franchise from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Los Angeles by way of annual spring training in Vero Beach, Fla.
Missives to and from O'Malley with a broad range of baseball and show business elites — Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson and Milton Berle to name but a few — are mostly brief and often pithy, resembling text messages without emojis but with just as many misspelled words. 'We didn’t know anybody in California when we moved here,' Peter said.
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