Peter O’Malley

Peter O'Malley is the former president (1970–1998) and owner (1979–1998) of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. The son of longtime Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, Peter was named the director of Dodgertown, the team's spring training headquarters, after receiving his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He later became general manager of the minor league Spokane Indians of the Pacific Coast League. O'Malley subsequently moved to the major league club as director of stadium operations and then executive vice president. He took over the presidency of the Dodgers from his father in 1970, and became owner when his father died in 1979. Among the hallmarks of O'Malley's baseball career were his deep involvement in the U.S. Little League program, his contribution to baseball's introduction as an Olympic sport, and his years of promotion of baseball globally, particularly in Latin America, Japan, and China, where a donation he made provided for construction of the country's first baseball stadium in 1986. He also funded the building of the O'Malley baseball fields in Corcaigh Park in Clondalkin, West Dublin, Ireland, considered the main home of Irish baseball. With wife, Annette, has three children. Two, Brian and Kevin, have joined their father and two cousins to buy the Padres.