¶ It took the Dodgers' President Walter O'Malley five consecutive days of negotiation and four considerably different "final offers" before he managed to rent a Los Angeles home for his footloose ball club. The site: the monstrous (101,528 seats) L.A. Coliseum. The price, to be paid to the city and county of Los Angeles and to the state of California: $200,000 a year for 1958 and 1959, plus 10% of the gate, and all concession profits for the first nine games of each season following an opening series with the San Francisco Giants.
¶Breaking the 880-yd. and 800-meter...
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