Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell and let's get right to No. 16 in our countdown.
Walter O'Malley made the decision to move the Dodgers from Brooklyn to L.A. in time for the 1958 season. He did not have a stadium ready so he rented the Coliseum for $200,000 a year and then moved to Dodger Stadium in 1962. The rest, as they say, is history.
He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007. In 1999, the Sporting News named O'Malley the 11th most powerful person in sports in the last century, while ABC Sports ranked him in its top-10 most influential people "off the field" in sports history.