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Billie Jean King, Ilana Kloss, Alan Smolinisky & Robert L. Plummer. 2019 –present. Smolinisky & Plummer buy a share of team. [4] Co-founder Charlie Byrne. Co-founder Ferdinand Abell. Former Dodger owners Charles Ebbets and Ed McKeever. Peter O'Malley. Frank McCourt.
In 1959, the season ended in a tie between the Dodgers and the Milwaukee Braves.The Dodgers won the tie-breaking playoff. 1959 also saw a team other than the Yankees win the A.L. pennant, one of only two such years in the 16-year stretch from 1949 through 1964, and because of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, this resulted in the first World Series since 1948 to have no games in New York City.
From the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles from Brooklyn in 1958, the Dodgers employed a handful of well-known public address announcers; the most famous of which was John Ramsey, who served as the PA voice of the Dodgers from 1958 until his retirement in 1982; he was also well known for announcing at other venerable Los Angeles venues, including ...
Guggenheim Baseball Management is the ownership group of the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team. [1] The consortium consisted of Guggenheim controlling partner Mark Walter, and also includes as investors basketball hall of famer Magic Johnson, movie producer Peter Guber, baseball team executive Stan Kasten, and investors Bobby Patton and Todd Boehly. [2]
The 2011–12 Los Angeles Dodgers ownership dispute was a period of turmoil at the management level of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, which began when Major League Baseball (MLB) seized control of the team from owner Frank McCourt on April 20, 2011. The following dispute over ownership of the franchise was not resolved until the team was ...
The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles. The team is in the Western Division of the National League. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, where it was known as the Brooklyn Dodgers, before moving to Los Angeles for the 1958 season. A total of 56 players, managers, and executives in the ...
6. Frank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. [1][2] As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, [3] owner of the football club Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty. [3] He was the owner and chairman of the ...
O'Malley on the cover of Time magazine, April 28, 1958. Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the ...