Word: dodgerism
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...circus, ain't it?" grinned Umpire Jocko Conlan as he looked over the Brooklyn Dodgers' training camp at Vero Beach, Fla. Some observers disagreed: it reminded them more of Willow Run or an Army basic training center. Whatever the word for Vero Beach, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey, the foxy grandpa of baseball, had brought mass production to spring baseball training...
Where the average big league club had taken a few score ballplayers to camp this month, Rickey had assembled more than 200-from Dodger Captain Pee Wee Reese down to raw bushers* trying to make the grade in the Dodger farm system at such places as Mobile, Ala., Ponca City, Okla. and Cairo, Ill. It took organization to keep that many players throwing, batting and listening to the oldtimers. Rickey had it all worked...
...almost an hour late, the tarpaulins had been hauled away. In the first inning, with only one out, Rex filled the bases with Giants-on a walk, his own error, and another walk. Between fast balls, he could still taste that hot dog. Manager Burt Shotton eyed the Dodger bullpen. Then, on a change-of-pace pitch, Willard Marshall grounded to Second Baseman Jackie Robinson for a double play...
...Dodger bench, Eddie Miksis spread consternation among his superstitious teammates by blurting out the unmentionable: "Hey, they haven't got any hits." Out there on the mound, Rex Barney did not need to be told ("I always know when a guy comes up there what he's done the last time ... I remember the ones that have hit me, and there were none to remember...
...mile-high fly to First Baseman Gil Hodges, who wiped the rain from his face and caught it. Then Whitey Lockman, who had hit three home runs off Barney earlier in the season, stepped up. He got a piece of the ball, but it fouled off near the Dodger dugout. Looking up into the lights, Catcher Bruce Edwards thought he was "seeing dozens of baseballs coming down," but managed to catch the right...