The Los Angeles Dodgers are including longtime proprietor Walter F. O’Malley, a member of the Nationwide Baseball Corridor of Fame, to their Ring of Honor subsequent month.
Ceremonies will happen Aug. 10 earlier than the group’s sport towards the Pittsburgh Pirates at Dodger Stadium, the development of which O’Malley spearheaded when the group moved west from Brookyln within the Fifties. His son, former Dodgers president Peter O’Malley, will settle for on behalf of his father, who died in 1979.
The elder O’Malley was named the vp and normal counsel of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943, turned co-owner the following 12 months, majority proprietor in 1950 and full proprietor in 1975. The O’Malley household bought the franchise in 1998.
“Walter O’Malley was a pioneer, whom we will thank for increasing baseball into a really nationwide sport — and likewise, by his goodwill exchanges with Japan, a global one,” mentioned Stan Kasten, president and CEO of the Dodgers. “He liked baseball, and he liked the Dodgers, illustrated by the longtime brilliance of Dodger Stadium, a ballpark for the ages. We’re thrilled to have fun Walter’s legacy, and we’re grateful that Peter, who constructed upon that basis so impactfully, will be part of us for this celebration.”
O’Malley turns into the fifteenth member of the Dodgers’ Ring of Honor. Already put in are managers Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda, broadcasters Vin Scully and Jaime Jarrin, and legendary gamers Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Jim Gilliam, Don Sutton and Fernando Valenzuela.