Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers and Baseball’s

Baseball Fans will be excited!

Meat and hear Andy McCue, author of "Baseball by the Books: The Complete History and Bibliography of Baseball Fiction" and former president of the Society for American Baseball Research, as he presents about his newest book about Walter O'Malley, "Mover and Shaker".

The book won the Seymour Medal, given annually by the Society for American Baseball Research for the best work of baseball history or biography published during the previous year.

Andy McCue has written numerous articles over 30 years as a newspaper reporter for The Wall Street Journal and other papers, as well as freelance work for magazines and journals.

One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O’Malley (1903–79) is best remembered—and still reviled by many—for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the O’Malley story leading up to the Dodgers’ move is unknown or created from myth, and there is substantially more to the man. When he entered the public eye, the self-constructed family background and early life he presented was gilded. Later his personal story was distorted by some New York sportswriters, who hated him for moving the Dodgers.

In "Mover and Shaker", Andy McCue presents for the first time an objective, complete, and nuanced account of O’Malley’s life. He also departs from the overly sentimentalized accounts of O’Malley as either villain or angel and reveals him first and foremost as a rational, hardheaded businessman, who was a major force in baseball for three decades and whose management and marketing practices radically changed the shape of the game.

Enjoy the fellowship along with the presentation.
Lunch is $20 at the door.
Attending the presentation is free.

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