World Series champions the Los Angles Dodgers moved to California in 1958 after becoming one of Major League Baseball's biggest franchises in Brooklyn, New York ...

Only two years later—exactly 50 years ago next week—Brooklyn fell from its short-lived glory. The baseball gods murdered the Dodgers with a poisonous cocktail of postwar affluence, the ...

saw baseball as an international game. He saw the big picture," said Dodgers historian Mark Langill. Langill described O'Malley as a visionary. He knew the Brooklyn Dodgers touring Japan was not ...