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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.
The Dodgers were the first Major League Baseball team to ever play in Los Angeles. On April 18, 1958, the Dodgers played their first LA game, defeating the former New York and now new San Francisco Giants, 6–5, before 78,672 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
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.
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 ...
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 Dodgers began play in 1884 as the Brooklyn Atlantics and have been known by seven nicknames since (including the Grays, Grooms, Superbas, and Robins), before adopting the Dodgers name for good in 1932. [1] They played in Brooklyn, New York until their move to Los Angeles in 1958. During the team's existence, they have employed 32 different ...
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 ...
Mark Walter. Mark Walter is an American businessman and the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, a privately held global financial services firm with more than $325 billion in assets under management and headquarters in Chicago and New York. He is also the part-owner and chairman of the Major League Baseball franchise Los Angeles ...