This Day in Walter O’Malley History: December 18

The New York Daily Mirror publishes a cartoon of Walter O’Malley in Dan Parker’s column depicting O’Malley as reading the sports pages with explosions of “Pop”, “Bang” and “Pop-Off” jumping off the newspaper. O’Malley is shown saying, “It used to be so nice and quiet!” Parker states in the column, “Wouldn’t life be simpler for genial Walter O’Malley if some of his Dodger loudspeakers didn’t sound off so often?” Dan Parker, New York Daily Mirror, December 18, 1952

Dodger Vice President Stadium Operations Dick Walsh writes a letter to John Waterbury of the New York architectural firm of Praeger-Kavanagh-Waterbury regarding details for interior sign drawings for Dodger Stadium: “We have reviewed the interior stadium sign drawings which you left with us on your last trip and have the following corrections, suggestions, etc. at this time. For your information, we are numbering the stadium with odd numbers running from homeplate to left field, and even numbers running from homeplate to right field. We will have no sections, but instead direct people to odd and even numbered aisles. This is a general correction that should be made to the next set of drawings you send to us.”

Walter O’Malley is the guest speaker at the Downtown Los Angeles Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League luncheon.