Word: dodgerism
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...Field. Nothing quite like it had been heard in a big-league ballpark since Connie Mack picked gimpy-armed Howard Ehmke to pitch (and win) the first game of the 1929 World Series. The announcer said that Ralph Branca, winner of just one game all season, would be the Dodger pitcher in the final do-or-die series with the St. Louis Cardinals...
...fine contract with Mexico's Pasquel brothers. The Pasquels promptly hollered that he owed them $26,000. Said Mickey: "I don't owe them nothing." Presumably, under Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler's rules, Mickey Owen was banned from U.S. organized ball for five years. But Brooklyn Dodger President Branch Rickey, badly in need of a catcher for his team's stretch drive, was ready to forgive & forget. He argued that Mickey's case was different, since he went straight from the Navy to Mexico, without signing a 1946 Dodger contract. Other ballplayers (the loudest...
...rarefied air (altitude at Mexico City: 7,325 ft.). But part of their trouble was not altitude, but attitude. Recently Monterrey, tied with Vera Cruz in the 14th inning, had a man on second. On a safe hit to left, the base-runner held up at third. Ex-Dodger Olmo, dozing in the field, thought the winning run had already crossed the plate. To show his disgust he fielded the ball, then turned and threw it-and the ball game-out of the park...
...worldbeater. It has four .300 hitters Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Red Schoendienst and Whitey Kurowski-but like Brooklyn, it is weak in catching and has no pitcher, except perhaps Howie Pollet, likely to win 20 games. The Cards got back in the running largely by Dodger default, but in their recent home-stand they had won 16, lost 6. Still, the aged Cubs, last year's winners and now in third place, might yet give both the Cards and Dodgers...
...Brooklyn Dodgers were two games out in front. One man who had a lot to do with it was a wartime pickup who wasn't very big, had only a fair arm and couldn't outrun his grandmother. But Ed ("The Brat") Stanky, 28, has the Dodger habit of getting into fights (which is good box office) and a high talent for getting bases-on-balls (which is good baseball...