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But it is not the same with professional sports. My tenth grade math teacher in New York is the world's second biggest Dodgers fan (behind Danny Kaye). He was a big fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers back in the 1940s and 1950s, one of the New York liberals who...
NEW YORK: After a year in the wings, Donnie Baseball made his retirement official Wednesday. "I guess I wasn't willing to pay the price to be successful," Mattingly told reporters at a farewell news conference at Yankee Stadium. "At that point I knew it was time to step away...
Family ownership of a team, O'Malley felt, had become an anachronism. Successful as they are, with a perennial contender on the field and an annual attendance figure that hovers at 3 million, the Dodgers claimed to be losing money. "Professional sports is as high risk as the oil business...
Fred Claire, the Dodgers' general manager, knew something was up when O'Malley called on Jan. 4 requesting that they meet the next day, Sunday, at 10:30 a.m. "When I hung up the phone," Claire said, "I thought to myself, 'He's going to sell.' It's not unusual...
And like members of other wealthy families, O'Malley may have felt the tug of the next generation, which often needs to put checking accounts ahead of box scores. Says Bob Graziano, the Dodgers' vice president of finance: "Peter and Terry combined have 13 children. A baseball team is not...