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The Dodgers did not employ a General Manager until 1950. Before then, the team President had the duties commonly associated with the GM. [6] There was also no general manager between 2018 and 2021, as the President of Baseball Operations took GM duties during this period. Former GM Ned Colletti #
The Dodgers' willingness to integrate, when most other teams refused to, was a key factor in their 1947–1956 success. They won six pennants in those 10 years with the help of Robinson, three-time MVP Roy Campanella , Cy Young Award winner Don Newcombe , Jim Gilliam , and Joe Black .
In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles despite the Dodgers being the second most profitable team in baseball from 1946 to 1956, and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Kansas City ...
After winning the pennant in 1941, the Dodgers would win six pennants in 10 years between 1947 and 1956, spurred on by the likes of Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in the modern major leagues.
Immediately upon leaving the Dodgers, Rickey was offered the position of executive vice president and general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates by the team's new majority owner, John W. Galbreath. He joined them on November 1, 1950, one month after the 1950 Bucs , who lost 96 out of 153 games, finished in last place for only the third time in ...
Principal owner: John W. Henry Net worth: $2.6 billion (2020) Purchase price: $380 million (2002) Current franchise valuation: $3.4 billion Value appreciation: 796% Annualized appreciation: 11.6% ...
In 1946, one year before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier, Dodgers owner Branch Rickey hired Fred Dobens as president, and his brother, Ray, as general manager, of the ...
James Ausley Mulvey (April 23, 1899 – December 3, 1973) was an American motion picture industry executive and a co-owner of the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball from 1938 until his death. He derived his stake in the Dodgers from his marriage to Marie "Dearie" McKeever, daughter of one of the franchise's longtime co ...