Roz Wyman, L.A.'s secret weapon in luring Dodgers west, is still cheering

[Machiavelli]

Chris Erskine
Los Angeles Times
May 14, 2016

If Los Angeles has a grande dame of sports, it is Roz Wyman — the Sultan of City Hall, the Wizard of Roz.

At 85, she still sits in her Dodgers season seat near the umpires tunnel, cheering on players young enough to be her great-grandsons.

Wyman was about their age when she helped bring the Dodgers to Los Angeles almost 60 years ago, when she was a nervy city councilwoman fresh out of USC who didn't think it was so remarkable to uproot one of baseball's bejeweled franchises.

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[EasyAce]

The two most important books---ever---about the real reason the Dodgers left Brooklyn:



(Hint: the real reason had to do with a certain New York building/planning czar who swore there
would never again be a privately-owned sports facility to see the light of day in New York city or
state so long as he had anything to say about it . . . and with the mouse-like politicians who
were too intimidated by him to stop him from amassing that much power. Had he failed,
Walter O'Malley would have built the world's first retractable-roof ballpark in Brooklyn.)