Peter O'Malley

The gloomy clouds that filled the skies of Vero Beach on Sunday were fitting for the mood of the fans mourning the end of baseball at Dodgertown. Sunday was the scheduled finale for the Vero Beach Devil Rays, who are moving to Port Charlotte next year...

Near the end of the 1976 season, the Dodgers were nine games out of first place and I was finishing my fourth year as third base coach for Walter Alston. When Alston, who was the skipper for 23 years and a future Hall of Famer, stepped down, everyone...

July 12, 2008 Branch Rickey disciple Al Campanis wrote "The Dodger Way to Play Baseball" in 1954. Campanis was scouting director on his way to becoming general manager, and his book, both symbolically and in practicality, became the organization's...

It was 21 years ago and it remains as clear as yesterday. Al Campanis imploded on national TV, and both the Dodgers and baseball swayed wildly for a while. A baseball team's public-relations nightmare became an entire sport's. What happened that night...

Manager Joe Torre's record for the first half of the season is a mixed bag. The good: If you look close enough, you'll spot a faint halo over Torre's cap that intimidates The Times' piranhas (er, scribes). He handles pitchers well, plays "little ball"...

Japan's Ai Miyazato, celebrating her 23rd birthday, shot a 4-under 68 Thursday to join Cristie Kerr and five South Korean players atop the crowded leaderboard at the Wegmans LPGA in Rochester, N.Y. "I think it was a good start to my birthday," said...

After a two-hour meeting in New York with billionaire Los Angeles developer Ed Roski this week, the NFL is starting to sound more bullish on a stadium in City of Industry. Roski says he can build one for $800 million, about half the cost of venues...

When point guard Jason Pancoe of state Division III champion Santa Margarita told friends earlier this month that he had accepted an offer to play basketball for Army, it produced a range of reactions. "That's incredible," one said. "You better start...

While Los Angeles celebrates the arrival of the Dodgers 50 years ago (beach balls! vigorous organ music!), Brooklyn, N.Y., faces the butt end of that anniversary. This month in 1958, Brooklynites found themselves facing their first 20th century spring...

The 61st spring encampment at the former Navy base that became Dodgertown in 1948 will be the last for the Dodgers in Vero Beach, Fla., another in the chain of broken links to Brooklyn. The Dodgers -- whose pitchers and catchers report to camp Thursday...

LOOKING back on it now, the Dodgers' move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in the late 1950s can be viewed in two vastly different lights: To get it done was the eighth wonder of the world. Once complete, it was the stage-setter for much that pro sports has...

Only the lucky ones so far have made it inside the Cypres Sports Museum, now taking shape in a nondescript office building about a mile south of Staples Center. Admission to the memorabilia collection in downtown Los Angeles has been by invitation only,...