Podcast appearances and mentions of walter o'malley

On May 9, 1959, Los Angeles Sheriff Deputies forcefully removed and arrested Aurora Vargas, daughter of Abrana and Manuel Aréchiga. The City of Los Angeles displaced the Aréchiga’s and the communities of Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop to build a new stadium for the Dodgers. The Dodgers had just arrived in LA from Brooklyn in 1958. The 62nd anniversary of this event was this past Sunday, May 9, 2021.   So, for today’s episode, I am honored to be joined on the podcast by writer and former VICE editor Eric Nusbaum (@ericnus). In his book, STEALING HOME: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between, Eric did a fantastic job recounting the displacement of Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop to build Dodger Stadium. Eric rightfully centered the story on the Aréchiga’s but connected several other stories as well. For example, Eric tells me about the LA Housing Authority official, Frank Wilkinson. Mr. Wilkinson hand-picked Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop as the new site (without asking the residents) for the city’s ambitious public housing project. Eric also explained how red scare politics derailed the project and Wilkinson’s life and career. Eric also detailed how Walter O’Malley’s Dodgers ended up in Los Angeles and gives us a little history of the LA baseball scene before the team’s arrival. As a Xicano who grew up a Dodger fan, we should never forget what happened to the three communities.  “Dodger Stadium should not exist!” -Frank Wilkinson"Stealing Home has a driving plot, a humane heart, and a proud conscience. Read it and enjoy the story, or read it and get mad, or read it and change your mind. Most importantly, read it.”     —Chuck D, Founding member of Public Enemy For more information, please visit www.buriedundertheblue.com. Buried Under the Blue (BUB) is “an indigenous platform bridging the past and present communities through historical context, education, environment, community services, and technology. To empower and educate people to create healthier communities for a united future.” Special thanks to Melissa Aréchiga for allowing me to use the video audio from a BUB IG video.  Go check out Eric Nusbaum’s latest project, Sports Stories. Eric and illustrator Adam Villacin explore sports and history at the intersection of everything. Subscribe to their newsletter and receive a story every Tuesday! As always, you can listen, subscribe, and download the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Deezer,  Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, and Pandora!Follow us on:Facebook: fb.com/SportsasaweaponpodcastIG: @SportsAsAWeaponPodcastTwitter: @sportsasaweaponYouTube: Sports As a Weapon Podcast

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin’ Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system. On this date back in 1957, Walter O’Malley met with officials from the city of Los Angeles and made the decision to go west, so the team asks a question familiar to any Brooklynite in Promote, Extend, Trade. After that, they give updates on their Way-Too-Early Draft Special players of interest. Next, Steve gives updates on our adopted CPBL/KBO/NPB teams, the Uni-Lions (CPBL), the LG Twins (KBO), and the Yakult Swallows (NPB). Following that, the team discusses some Mets minor league roster news. After, the team makes predictions regarding the upcoming 2021 minor league season. Wrapping things up, they discuss the Wilponery of the Week. As always, you can listen or subscribe to the podcast through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, Spotify, or listen wherever you get podcasts. Got questions? Comments? Concerns? You can email the show at fromcomplextoqueens at gmail dot com, and follow us on Twitter: Steve (@stevesypa), Lukas (@lvlahos343), (@KenLavin91), and Thomas (@sadmetsszn). Until next week, #lovethemets #lovethemets! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Nusbaum is the author of the award-winning book, "Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between." Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy.Instead of getting their homes back, the remaining residents saw the city sell their land to Walter O’Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now LA would be getting a different sort of utopian fantasy — a glittering, ultra-modern stadium.But before Dodger Stadium could be built, the city would have to face down the neighborhood’s families — including one, the Aréchigas, who refused to yield their home. The ensuing confrontation captivated the nation – and the divisive outcome still echoes through Los Angeles today.In this episode of the podcast, Nusbaum discusses the history of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, and the lives and communities its construction disrupted.

LA’s Dodger Stadium – opened in April 1962, and now the third-oldest home ballpark in Major League Baseball – is an American icon.  But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant semi-rural Mexican American communities – Palo Verde, La Loma and Bishop – collectively known as Chavez Ravine.  In the early 1950s, all was condemned via eminent domain to make way for a utopian public housing project called Elysian Park Heights.  Then, in a remarkable political turn, the entire idea of public housing in Los Angeles was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy. Instead of getting their homes back, the area’s remaining residents saw the city sell the land to Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley – in an opportunistic effort to finally lure big league baseball to the City of Angels – and definitively confirm its status as a “major league” American metropolis.  But before the Dodgers’ new home could be built, municipal officials would have to face down the neighborhood's last holdouts – including the defiant Aréchigas family, who fiercely refused to yield their home. Author Eric Nusbaum (Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between) joins to discuss the sordid backstory of Dodger Stadium’s birth, the ensuing confrontation that stunned the nation, and the divisive outcome that still taints the team’s legacy and haunts the city’s modern history.

The Bedford & Sullivan podcast enters its next 100 episodes with a friendly debate. For most of our lives, Brooklyn Dodgers fans have cursed Walter O'Malley and his decision to bring their beloved Dodgers west. Out west, however, he was revered as a pioneer who helped bring the game of baseball in its major league form to the other coast. Rob Barnes, a Dodgers fan from Illinois going back to 1969 who joined us on the 86th episode, joins the podcast once more to take up the pro-Walter O'Malley side, while Brooklyn born Peter Trunk, who joined us on the 93rd episode, takes the anti-O'Malley postion. It should be a fun back and forth to distract us from that thing we could get while outside these days. So, join us at 11am ET for the latest episode, and first debate edition, of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

The 98th episode arrives, and the active research continues! This week on the Bedford & Sullivan podcast, John Nelson, a native of Bay Ridge, talks about growing up in Brooklyn, having a mini-ticket-package to Ebbets Field between 1954-1957, as well as some extra perks that came with his dad being Walter O'Malley's handyman. John will also discuss meeting some of his childhood heroes when he got a chance to do Dodgers fantasy camp a few years in a row. So, join us LIVE at 10:30am ET for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

February 27, 2011 — The “Duke of Flatbush”, Hall of Famer Duke Snider dies in Escondido, CA at age 84. Snider was a power-hitting centerfielder for the great Brooklyn Dodgers teams of the 1950s and is immortalized in Terry Cashman’s song “Willie, Mickey and the Duke”.  Snider was Brooklyn’s entry into one of the most passionate debates in baseball history.  New York sportswriter Red Smith once wrote, “(Duke) Snider, (Mickey) Mantle, and (Willie) Mays.  You could get a fat lip in any saloon by starting an argument as to which was the best.”  Sharing the big city spotlight with fellow future Hall of Fame centerfielders Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, Snider was part of a magical period in New York baseball that saw a team from the nation’s largest city win the World Series in nine out of the 10 seasons between 1949 and 1958.  The Dodgers appeared in the Fall Classic five times during that time, winning their only championship in Brooklyn in 1955.  Although the Dodger lineup also featured other outstanding performers such as Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Gil Hodges throughout much of the period, no one on the team wielded a more potent bat than Snider.  And, even though the Brooklyn centerfielder usually came out third best in comparisons to Mays and Mantle, Snider hit more home runs during the 1950s (326) than any other player in baseball. Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner once noted, “I’d say Duke covers more ground, wastes less motion, and is more consistent than anyone since DiMaggio.”  And Stan Musial named Snider, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron as his all-time National League outfield. What could have been – after the failed playoff series in 1951 Snider later recalled, “I went to Walter O’Malley and told him I couldn’t take the pressure.  I told him I’d just as soon be traded.  I told him I figured I could do the Dodgers no good.” 

Following the 1957 season, two of baseball's most famous teams – the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants – left the city they had called home since the 1880s and headed west to the Golden State of California. The dramatic departure and bold reinvention of the Dodgers (to Los Angeles) and the Giants (to San Francisco) is the stuff of not only professional baseball lore, but also broader American culture – brash and (especially among generations of New Yorkers) unforgivable acts of betrayal committed by greedy owners Walter O'Malley and Horace Stoneham.  But, as this week’s guest Lincoln Mitchell (Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues) argues, the broader chronological story of America’s biggest-ever pro sports franchise relocation was, and is, not a one-way narrative. While a traumatic blow to the societal psyche of the New York metropolitan region, the transplanting of two longtime National League rivals was not only inevitable (as the nation’s economic and demographic profiles were rapidly changing), but ultimately crucial to the survival of the sport – as increasingly modern forces like air transportation, television and the automobile began to transform pre-War notions of leisure time and discretionary income. A culturally and financially booming post-War California quickly proved to be not only fertile ground for baseball, but also a blueprint for US professional sports writ large in the decades that followed. Thank you VisitArizona.com for sponsoring this week’s episode!

In Breaking Walls Episode 78, in honor of Major League’s Baseball’s opening day, we present stories, recollections, and in-game sounds from some of baseball’s most memorable moments and people. Highlights: • Hear what Jackie Robinson’s Major League Baseball debut on April 15th, 1947 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, NY sounded like • NY Daily News Columnist Ben Gross recalls the first World Series radio broadcast on WJZ in 1921 • Dizzy Dean and the famed Gas House Gang’s 1930s rivalry with the New York Giants • Red Barber, Mel Allen and the growth of baseball’s radio broadcasting industry • Hear Babe Ruth on the radio • Hear Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech from July 4th, 1939 • Sounds from the 1939 World Series • Who did Joe McCarthy think was better, Joe Dimaggio or Ted Williams? • Sounds from the New York Yankees, New York Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers • Bing Crosby calls a Yankee game with Mel Allen • How a dispute between Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley and NYC Park’s Commissioner Robert Moses caused both the Dodgers and Giants to move to California in 1957 • Jackie Robinson interviews Satchel Paige in 1960 • Phil Rizzuto calls Roger Maris’ 61st home run on October 1, 1961 • Jackie Robinson’s last public appearance in 1972 The WallBreakers: thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: patreon.com/TheWallBreakers Special thanks to our Sponsors: • The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society www.ghoulishdelights.com/series/themorls/ •Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight twelvechimesradio.blogspot.com The reading material for today’s episode was: • The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning • and countless reference websites for the history of Baseball Music featured in today’s Episode Included: • Did you See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball? By Woodrow Buddy Johnson & Count Basie • Swing into Spring by Benny Goodman • There Used to be A Ballpark by Frank Sinatra • Wanted by Perry Como • The First Baseball Game by Nat King Cole A Special Thank you to: Christian Neuhaus Rebecca Shield WallBreakers Links: Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers Social Media - @TheWallBreakers URL - http://thewallbreakers.com Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

The Bedford & Sullivan podcast is back! For the first time in 2018, the research process of the HBO-style TV series on Brooklyn and its Dodgers continues! On today's show, Brian Sidney Parrott joins us to discuss his father, Harold Parrott. Harold was with the Brooklyn Eagle on the Dodgers beat for 15 years before joining the team as the traveling secretary and publicist. We'll discuss Harold's run-in with Larry MacPhail, his relationship with both Branch Rickey and Walter O'Malley, and his abrupt exit from the sport. And much, Much more! So, join us at 1pmET for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

On April 10, 1962 Walter O'Malley's vision for the Los Angeles Dodgers triumphed when he opened his new privately constructed stadium. It was five years in the making, and wasn't without controversy, as various civic visions and social forces clashed. One thing was certain about Dodger Stadium: it had a profound effect on the city's identity in the 20th Century. In this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, Jerald Podair, author of "City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles" tell this gripping story. Jerald Podair is professor of history and the Robert S. French Professor of American Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the Allan Nevins Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians for "literary distinction in the writing of history." Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.

On this week’s show, author Jerry Podair makes the case that Robert Moses — and not Walter O’Malley — is to blame for the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn. But host Vince DiMiceli says he’s dead wrong. Take a listen and find out how Judge Gersh Kuntzman rules!

On this episode of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast, Rick Elliott, the writer of "Clem Labine: Always a Dodger," will join me to welcome Brooklyn Dodgers 3rd baseman Randy "Ransom" Jackson! We'll discuss what his views of Brooklyn were before and after being traded from the Cubs to the Dodgers in Dec. '55, his views on Walter O'Malley, his feelings on being in the position of replacing an aging Jackie Robinson, and where he got that "Ransom" nickname. So, join us at 10:30am ET for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

St. Petersburg officials have made a pitch to keep baseball's Rays in their current location. Tampa Bay reporter Noah Pransky says development opportunities for the team near a new ballpark is the real attraction. Also- what were the politics behind the development of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles?  Jerald Podair's new book examines Walter O'Malley's ballpark vision and how it helped create a modern Los Angeles. And- we continue our conversation with author Josh Pahigian, whose new book explores the hidden adventures in visiting major and minor league ballparks across America.  

The Bedford & Sullivan podcast returns at 9:30am ET Monday with one of our favorite guests! Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine joins us for the 73rd episode to talk about a contentious individual in the history of the Brooklyn National League Baseball Club-- Mr. Walter O'Malley. Brooklyn has long had a pretty much one-sided opinion of the man who moved the Dodgers thousands of miles away, but Carl Erskine and others have talked glowingly of the man. The gentleman from Anderson, Indiana, joins us to talk about his relationship with O'Malley as well as his overall take of the last owner of a Brooklyn Big League ballclub. So, join us on 3/13 at 9:30am ET for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

The Bedford & Sullivan podcast returns as the heat rises in the neighborhood surrounding the former ballpark. Today we go back to 1953, with the help of author Andy Mele, writer of "Tearin' Up the Pea Patch: The Brooklyn Dodgers, 1953", as well as a member of that squad, 20-game winner Carl Erskine. We'll discuss things such as what made that pennant-winning team so strong, why they are still revered as one of the best of all time, the manager, Charlie Dressen, and some of Carl's former teammates. So, make sure you tune in at 3:30pm ET for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

The research process continues with the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast! Dodgers Team Historian and Publications Editor Mark Langill returns to the show, helping to take us on a journey back to the Dodgers of the 1940's! First off, however, we'll wrap up the 2013 Modern Dodgers season, which ended in disappointment but culminated the other day with Clayton Kershaw's 2nd Cy Young win in 3 years. After that, we'll discuss Branch Rickey and his transition in the early 40's from the Cardinals to the Dodgers and his ordeal trying to protect one of the greatest natural talents in baseball history, Pete Reiser. We will also discuss Walter O' Malley and his transition from being the attorney of the ballclub to a minority owner stake in 1944. So, join us at 12PM ET for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

The research process marches on with the 28th episode of the Bedford & Sullivan Podcast! Rick Elliott, family friend of the late great Dodgers pitcher Clem Labine, joins us once more to talk about Clem's relationship with Jackie Robinson, how the pitcher dealt with bigotry thrown his black teammates' ways, and Clem's deepest regret in his friendship with Jackie. We will also discuss Clem's feelings on Walter O'Malley. So, join us at 12PM ET for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan Podcast!

The research process continues with the 19th Bedford & Sullivan Podcast! Lee Lowenfish, who literally wrote the book on Branch Rickey, calls in to discuss Branch's transition from the Cardinals to Brooklyn, his relationship with Walter O'Malley and how it helped lead to his exit, and his last public appearance being inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. So, tune in at 10:30AM ET on Monday, September 30th, for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan Podcast!

The Bedford & Sullivan Podcast is back with Dodgers Team Historian Mark Langill once more! We'll open up with some modern Dodgers talk with the current incarnation having just recently clinched a National League Western Division title. Then, we'll keep the late 30's and early 40's conversation going, talking about Leo Durocher, Walter O'Malley, and the McKeever/Mulvey family as they all pertain to the pre-war years. So, join us at 12:00PM ET for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

The Bedford & Sullivan podcast is back for its 5th episode! Today on the show, Tom Knight, a man everyone refers to as the official Brooklyn Baseball Historian, will join us to discuss his roots in the borough, his history with baseball and his take on certain Dodger characters, including Larry MacPhail and Walter O'Malley. So, join us at 4:00PM EST for the latest edition of the Bedford & Sullivan podcast!

THIS WEEK'S PODCAST TRANSCRIPT:1958: The Giants play the Dodgers in the first major league baseball game on the West Coast April 15, 1958 Major League Baseball in San Francisco! Exactly fifty-one years ago today, two New York City transplants faced each other for the first time on the fertile soil of the West Coast. Decades of storied rivalry already under their respective belts, these two legendary New York baseball clubs -- the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers -- were trapped in aging, unsuitable parks. Giants owner Horace Stoneham had been considering a move to Minnesota until Dodger owner Walter O'Malley -- whose plans for a new Brooklyn park were being blocked -- set his sights on the demographic paradise of Los Angeles. The National League wouldn't allow just one team to make such a drastic geographic move, so O'Malley talked Stoneham into taking a look at San Francisco. To the eternal regret and dismay of their New York fans, following the 1957 season, both teams pulled up stakes and headed for the welcoming arms of California. read on ...