Word: dodgerism
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...baseball player after Uncle Robbie's happy heart. In spring training at Daytona Beach. Fla. in 1916. Casey helped talk the Dodger manager into trying to catch a baseball dropped from one of those new-fangled flying machines. Robbie waited confidently on the beach, mitt poised, unaware that Casey had substituted a grapefruit for the ball...
Brooklyn fans, who had learned to love him, cheerfully razzed him the first time he turned up at Ebbets Field in an enemy uniform. Casey understood, but he saw a chance to get even. Out in the field in the first inning, he watched a Dodger in the bullpen catch a sparrow. He borrowed the stunned bird and slipped it under...
...Bullet Bob" Turley, Casey's best righthander, can be as wild as an ensign with a .45; he has a tendency to aim the ball when he gets behind a batter, and may be a setup for Dodger power...
...Dodgers ran away from the league. Never headed, they took 22 out of their first 24, for a 9½-game lead. By June 11 they had gained another game; after that, their lead never dropped below ten. Even during a midseason slump (they lost twelve out of 18 in August), the margin grew because the rest of the pack, snarling and snapping at themselves, knocked each other off to push the Dodger lead to an enormous...
...their pennants, the Dodgers have never beaten the Yankees (or anyone else) in a World Series. So the Dodgers duty is clear. Said Dodger President Walter O'Malley: "I want to beat the Yankees. We have to beat the Yankees some time or other, and this ought to be the time...