January 30 in Walter O’Malley History

January 30, 1948

Walter O’Malley attends the National League Pennant Dinner honoring the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers at the Lexington Hotel.

January 30, 1952

Walter O’Malley announces a 21-year lease with the City of Vero Beach, Florida to make Dodgertown the team’s long-term Spring Training headquarters. O’Malley continued his development and investment in Dodgertown for decades, making it the state-of-the-art standard for all spring training sites.

January 30, 1961

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Renowned designer and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller meets with Walter O’Malley in his office at 930 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles at 11 a.m. They then drove to see the progress that is being made in the construction process of Dodger Stadium before having lunch. Fuller, most known for his invention of the geodesic dome, was serving as a research professor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale at the time.

January 30, 1965

The CBS television program “Alumni Fun” tapes a show in New York featuring Walter O’Malley and two other University of Pennsylvania teammates for its quiz program. Following the taping, O’Malley and his wife Kay have lunch with Penn teammate Marietta Tree, the first U.S. woman ambassador to the United Nations.

January 30, 1974

Participating in the Hawaiian Open Pro-Am golf tournament at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Walter O’Malley was paired with 22-year-old rookie Ben Crenshaw. In 1984 and 1995, Crenshaw won Masters titles.