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With the post–World War II population shifts south and west and the rise in transcontinental airplane service, many West Coast cities were actively pursuing Major League Baseball to move there; among them Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Jan 25, 2019 · Specifically to Los Angeles, a booming city without any preexisting baseball allegiances -- and willing to offer hundreds of acres of downtown land. O'Malley bought the Minor League L.A. Stars in 1956, and despite a last-ditch effort from Nelson Rockefeller himself, the move seemed all but done.
May 28, 2024 · On May 28, 1957, the National League approved one of the most significant relocations in the history of professional sports: the simultaneous move of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to California. The decision marked the beginning of a new era of baseball, bringing the sport’s top talent to the West Coast for the first time.
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Wheelchair-bound for life, former Brooklyn Dodgers star Roy Campanellais honored at an exhibition game between the Dodgers and New York Yankees on May 7 before a Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum crowd of 93,103—at the time, the largest gathering for a game pairing two major league teams. An additional 15,000 fans are turned away after the game is sold...
With New York City out of the National League picture and growing sentiment for expansion in the majors, the Continental League is announced as a potential third major league circuit. Among its backers are Branch Rickey, various New York officials including Mayor Robert Wagner, and Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver—the front man in Congress’ chronic...
Cleveland slugger Rocky Colavitobecomes the sixth player in major league history to hit four home runs in a game on June 10 at Baltimore; he is only the third player to knock them out consecutively. Colavito’s blasts and six runs batted in give the Indians an 11-8 victory.
Warren Spahn becomes the National League’s all-time leader in wins among left-handed pitchers, passing Eppa Rixeywith a 3-2 defeat of Philadelphia at Milwaukee on September 26. Spahn will add another 96 victories before his career is done.
Dave Philley—playing for, appropriately, the Philadelphia Phillies—hits safely in his ninth consecutive pinch-hit at-bat in a 7-3 loss at Milwaukee on April 16. The streak is a major league record, one that Philley began at the end of the 1958 season. Rusty Staubwill eventually match Philley in 1983.
The Chicago White Sox clobber the Athletics at Kansas City, 20-6, on April 22 thanks to a third inning where they score 11 runs—on just one hit. The A’s do their part to aid the White Sox rally with 10 walks, a hit batsman, and three errors.
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The All-Star Game actually becomes a series, with two games played a month apart in the summer. The NL wins the first game at Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field on July 7, 5-4; the AL wins the second by a 5-3 count at Los Angeles on August 3. The second game is held to raise funds primarily for the players’ pension fund. The two-game format will continue th...
On October 8, 1957, O'Malley announced that after 68 seasons in Brooklyn, the Dodgers would be moving to Los Angeles. In a move to bring baseball to all parts of the country, the Giants also decided to relocate from New York to San Francisco.
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Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965–1968 is the fifth box set in Rhino Records ' Nuggets series, released September 22, 2009. The set's four discs each focus on a different aspect of the underground rock music scene in and around Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s.
