The site launched in 2003, so there's no news hook to this, but to learn more about the career and life of former Dodgers owner
Walter O'Malley, who today was
voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee, check out the Internet home of his biographers at
www.walteromalley.com.
Son
Peter O'Malley , with the help of Brent Shyer and Bob Schweppe and team historian Mark Langill, is the force behind this site, which goes extensively into his father's career with photos, historical documents and other facts that only the family could provide.
Walter O'Malley may stil be
one of the most hated men in Brooklyn for taking the team to Los Angeles 50 years ago -- but what a timely honor to enshrine him with all the celebration going on around the franchise this coming season.
Our favorite spot to browse on the O'Malley website is through the
personal correspondence, which includes such things as signed notes from Babe Ruth, General Douglas McArthur, Jackie Robinson, Walt Disney, Ty Cobb, Herbert Hoover,
Branch Rickey ... and this one from broadcaster
Al Michaels, from 1968 when he was doing games for the Hawaiian Islanders Triple A team, who says: "Nothing would be a greater thrill for me than to have the opportunity to work with the Dodger organization some day. It would be the culmination of a lifelong dream."