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Andy McCue
Andy McCue has been a SABR member since 1982, winning the Bob Davids Award in 2007. He served on SABR’s board for nine years, finishing with a term as president in 2009–11. He won the SABR-Macmillan Award for Baseball by the Books: A History and Bibliography of Baseball Fiction and the Doug Pappas Award for a presentation on Dodgers ownership. His biography of Walter O’Malley, Mover and Shaker, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2014 and won SABR's Seymour Medal.
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Baseball History and Biography
Baseball Ownership & League Management
Franchise Movement & Expansion
Baseball Fiction
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Mover and Shaker:
Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion
One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O’Malley (1903–79) is best remembered—and still reviled by many—for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the O’Malley story leading up to the Dodgers’ move is unknown or created from myth, and there is substantially more to the man. When he entered the public eye, the self-constructed family background and early life he presented was gilded. Later his personal story was distorted by some New York sportswriters, who hated him for moving the Dodgers.
In Mover and Shaker Andy McCue presents for the first time an objective, complete, and nuanced account of O’Malley’s life. He also departs from the overly sentimentalized accounts of O’Malley as either villain or angel and reveals him first and foremost as a rational, hardheaded businessman, who was a major force in baseball for three decades and whose management and marketing practices radically changed the shape of the game.
