We wrote about Peter Golenbock's Bums back in November 2022. That book is an oral history of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and one of its central characters is Walter O'Malley, the owner who moved the team to Los Angeles after the 1957 season. In Golenbock's telling, O'Malley is the villain of the story - the guy who ripped the heart out of Brooklyn for money.

Michael D'Antonio's Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley argues that story is incomplete, and in important ways just wrong. We read it in May 2025 and it changed our mind about several things. Full notes …