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Despite winning 12 National League (NL) pennants and one World Series from 1890 to 1957, professional baseball’s Brooklyn franchise experienced problems with its location, ballpark, and market. Five decades after being re-nicknamed Dodgers in the early 1900s, majority owner Walter O’Malley demanded public land for free from Brooklyn’s commissioner of parks and to replace the 31,500-seat Ebbets Field with a new ballpark. Besides these issues, O’Malley was impressed with the surge in the NL Braves’ home-game attendances after they moved from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953.
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See Frank P. Jozsa Jr., Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006), and James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).
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Each MLB team has a franchise timeline on its website. For this chapter, there is information at http://www.losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com
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Two sources are the Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2005 Edition (St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 2005) and “Teams,” http://www.baseball-reference.com cited 28 January 2015.
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Ken Gurnick, “Dodgers Sale to Walter, Kasten, Magic Complete,” http://www.m.mlb.com cited 9 August 2015.
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These references are, respectively, “The Business of Baseball,” http://www.forbes.com cited 28 January 2015 and “Major League Baseball Valuations,” http://www.bloomberg.com cited 2 February 2015.
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Paul Swaney, “2014 MLB Ballpark Experience Rankings,” http://www.stadiumjourney.com cited 23 February 2015.
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Barry Janoff, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.nysportsjournalism.com cited 23 February 2015.
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Business articles about the Dodgers organization include Alexis Leondis and Sree Vidya, “Mark Walter, the Moneyman Behind the Dodgers Deal,” Business Week (21 May 2012): 1 and Alex Raskin, “Dodgers Owners Eye Piece of Nets—Report: Team Owners Meet in Moscow,” Wall Street Journal (3 October 2014): A20.
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Jozsa, F.P. (2016). Los Angeles Dodgers. In: National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success . SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25993-2_13
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