Word: dodgerism
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...ninth inning the strain began to tell. Bickford walked two Dodgers. "I was really nervous," he admitted later. Then, with two men on base and one out, Dodger Outfielder Duke Snider banged into a double play, ending the game and giving Bickford his no-hitter.* Final score: Boston 7, Brooklyn...
...year grossed $42 million, netted $3,300,000. Babies are so important to President Gerber that he prints his annual report in pink & blue, with his own picture framed in a blue ribbon bow (see cut). Gerber follows the U.S. birthrate figures as eagerly as a Brooklyn fan scanning Dodger batting averages...
...Army service, his difficulties at finding a job. Leaving home and the college sweetheart (Ruby Dee) he is later to marry, he gets on a Negro baseball team, travels in an old bus that doubles as a hotel and restaurant on long hauls through Jim Crow territory. Then Dodger Boss Branch Rickey (Minor Watson) offers him a contract with the Dodgers' Montreal farm team. Rickey's terms: Robinson must stay above reproach while proving himself as a hitter, fielder and base runner; he must turn the other cheek to the inevitable abuse of the crowds, the rival teams...
...Jackie Robinson Story" makes clear the tremendous anti-Negro sentiment Robinson faced-not only on the part of fans but from his own team-mates. It also shows why Brooklyn Dodger president Branch Rickey had to select his man for this experiment with such great care, and why Robinson's ability to turn his other cheek made him the perfect choice. The film does not point out, however, the economic impetus behind Rickey's move...
...Choked Up. In Brooklyn, the local Red Cross chapter advised women Dodger fans not to wear girdles at the ball park because "they strangle the emotions...