This Day in Walter O’Malley History:

  • Walter O’Malley attends an executives meeting of the Swedish Hospital at the Brooklyn Club. O’Malley’s father-in-law Judge Peter B. Hanson was President of Swedish Hospital in Brooklyn for 16 years.

  • Walter O’Malley has a meeting with New York Mayor William O’Dwyer. Mayor O’Dwyer was the City’s 100th Mayor and served from 1946-50. Both O’Malley (in 1930) and O’Dwyer (1923) graduated from Fordham University Law School by attending night classes.

  • Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully meets with Walter O’Malley at the Dodger offices at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn.

  • An airline strike cancels Walter O’Malley’s plans to fly from Los Angeles to St. Louis, Missouri for a meeting with the Major League Baseball Executive Council and Players’ Union Chief Marvin Miller.

  • For the second time in five seasons, Dodger first baseman Steve Garvey is named Most Valuable Player Award of the All-Star Game. Garvey collected two hits and two RBI in the National League’s 7-3 victory in San Diego. He first won game MVP honors in 1974 when he made the team that year as a “write-in” candidate on the ballot, collected two hits and drove in a run.