Tag: Walter O’Malley
How Milwaukee Changed Sports By Getting Lou Perini’s Braves In 1953
The first politics of sports business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC35GXLv-PM
Sixty-seven years ago today, Lou
Perini moved his Boston Braves National League baseball team to Milwaukee and
changed how...
A’s Want To Stay In Oakland
Oakland's last shot at remaining a big league city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpMat0htTVU
You have to go back to 1957 to find a city that lost two major league...
Baseball Was Unequipped To Handle Dr. King’s Assassination in 1968
Baseball officials were lost in the aftermath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgnZwgPnKzA&feature=youtu.be
Fifty years ago today, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee. The...
Sports Business Changed 65 Years Ago Today
Lou Perini changed the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T48ItM1wLa0&feature=youtu.be
Sixty five years ago today, Lou Perini moved his Boston Braves National League baseball team to Milwaukee and changed how...
Baseball Once Was The King Of American Sports
Baseball is just another sport these days.
In the good old summer time baseball, not just major league baseball, was the king of sports. Sure,...
Islanders Arena Overshadows Belmont
Islanders ownership would like to build an arena by the Belmont track
The third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, the Belmont, is on the...