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Walter O'Malley (left) and Horace Stoneham on their way to a meeting of National League team owners in Chicago, May 28, 1957
Tom Gallagher/New York Daily News
Early in 1957 came rumors that the Dodgers might leave Brooklyn for Los Angeles. Walter O'Malley started to talk to Horace Stoneham, owner of the Giants, about joining him in a move west, arguing that the other National League owners, mindful of their travel expenses, would not approve the move of a single team so far away from the others. Stoneham, who had been eyeing a move to Minneapolis, did not need much convincing. The Giants' board of directors voted to move on August 19, 1957; the Dodgers' board followed suit on October 8.
