Word: dodgerism
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BRAVES FIELD, September 29--There is a saying around Ebbets Field that if it isn't raining hard enough to make the ink run on Dodger tickets, then the game cannot he called. So, bolstered by many years of mudding for dear old Rickey, the Brooklyn entry wandered out into nor easter weather today and waded to a double victory over the complacent Braves...
...dugout San Juan Hill style and once had his batter ready to hit before the Boston pitcher had even picked up the ball. On the field Captain Reese seized the ball at the conclusion of each play and presented it immediately to pitcher Newcombe, depriving the Dodger infielders of those happy interludes of flinging the ball at each other's heads which they enjoy so much...
...fact, Barney's boys only made one mistake. In the top half of the fourth Barlick was forced to stroll over to the Dodger dugout to ask Gene Hermanski if he would kindly shut his yap. Mr. Hermanski attributed his blasphemous outburst to a fit of boyish enthusiasm and respectfully complied...
There is an obscure baseball rule that no batter may deliberately make an out, so the Dodger hitters all assumed peculiar chop swings. Roy Campanella, who has not hit a ball on the ground since Bill Cunningham denounced the Red Sox, suddenly bounced to third. After Antonelli walked six foot five inches Newcombe on a series of high outside pitches, Reese proceeded to deliberately hit the most beautiful double play ball to shortstop Ryan that could be imagined, a soft line drive on one bounce...
...long ago as last fall, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey realized what he had in Newcombe. When the dollar-splurging Pittsburgh Pirates asked the Montrealer's price, Rickey put a half-serious $1,000,000 tag on him; that drew a short answer from Pirate General Manager H. Roy Hamey: "You keep Newcombe; I'll keep my million." Later, before the 1949 season opened, Rickey solemnly announced that Newcombe was for sale: "The price, gentlemen, is a half-million dollars, and when I say a half million I don't mean...