Frank McCourt is the current owner of the Los Angeles dodgers
Frank McCourt
In Brooklyn, the Dodgers were first called the Trolley Dodgers, then the name was shortened to Dodgers.
In 2012, a group that included NBA great Magic Johnson purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers from Frank McCourt for a reported $2 billion. McCourt, a real estate developer from Massachusetts, had owned the Dodgers since 2004.Frank McCourt
They both moved after the 1957 season. Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley persuaded New York Giants Horace Stoneham to transplant their National League rivalry to the West Coast. The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and the Giants settled in San Francisco.
1957 was the final year of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley moved the club to Los Angeles during the winter of 1957, the team became the Los Angeles Dodgers starting with the 1958 season.
In 2012, a group that included NBA great Magic Johnson purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers from Frank McCourt for a reported $2 billion. McCourt, a real estate developer from Massachusetts, had owned the Dodgers since 2004.
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Both the Dodgers and Giants moved to California in 1958.
When Jackie Robinson entered the National League in 1947, the primary owners of the Dodgers were Walter O'Malley, Branch Rickey, and John Smith. O'Malley assumed majority control of the Dodgers in 1950 upon Smith's death.
Walter Alston, who had managed the Dodgers in Brooklyn since 1954.
Charles Bronfman first majority owner.