Word: dodgerism
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...difficulty, he testified last week, until two men named Frank Nathan and Burt K. Naster set out to help him. Nathan, of Miami Beach, is a gambler, chiseler and influence peddler; Naster, of Hollywood, Fla., is a former Chicago industrialist who once served a prison term as a tax dodger...
...Brooklyn Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella, the Baseball Writers' annual poll as Most Valuable Player in the National League. In second place: Stan ("The Man") Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, who has won the award three times before. Third: the Giants' Monte Irvin, who led the league in runs batted...
...Eager as Dodger fans, people began lining up, fortified with fish, rice and camp stools, outside the great, grey Korakuen Stadium 30 hours before the first game against the Yomiuri Giants, the all-Japan champions. The Americans won, 7 to 0 but the Japanese didn't seem to mind. "The Americans will obviously continue the winning," explained one earnest, bespectacled university student, "because of the legs and arms which are longer...
Help from the Dodgers. The turning point for the Giants came just when things looked darkest. One night in mid-August, they were 12½ games behind, and they had just taken a three-game whipping from the Dodgers. Through the dressing-room door, the Giants could hear the Dodger cries of derision: "Eat your heart out, Leo ... So that's your kind of team. Well, you can have it." Then the Dodgers started chanting a rollicking song: "Roll out the barrel, we've got the Giants on the run." Over in a corner, a reporter asked Durocher...
Several years ago, Leo salvaged a game against a second-division club by relieving with his ace on the eve of a traditionally "crucial" Dodger-Cardinal series. To bemused sports writers he explained: "I play today's game today. Who knows? It could rain tomorrow...