Word: dodgerism
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Girl Crazy (M.G.M.) shows Judy Garland all buoyed up by Mickey Rooney. There are also Tommy Dorsey's band, which sets the pace for some stupefying dance routines, a comic girl (Nancy Walker) who talks like a Brooklyn Dodger in skirts, and a musicomic plot...
...publicly caterwauled with National League President Ford Frick over two protested games, quadrupled his own salary to $20,000, and hired "Fat Freddy" Fitzsimmons, spunky, good-natured ex-Dodger pitcher, to manage the Phillies. They ended the season in seventh place, where Bucky Harris had said they belonged all the time...
Thirteen days before Dodger President Branch Rickey made last week's pronouncement, the editor & publisher of The Sporting News had gingerly suggested that behavior problems, not salary bickering, were separating Brooklyn's president and manager. Durocher's five-year record was good: one pennant, two seconds, two thirds. But last season the Dodgers had a player revolt, barely finished third. Lippy Leo was as flashy a figure along high-living Broadway as in Ebbets Field. Knowing Rickey's puritanism, many a sportswriter flatly forecast the lumps...
...American climaxed a three-month War Bond drive and pitched a whopping $800,000,000 into the U.S. Treasury. From Broadway and Hollywood came Irving Berlin, Jimmy Cagney, Ethel Merman, Cab Galloway, Carole Landis to entertain the bond-buying fans; later a crack Army team played a combination of Dodger-Giant-Yankee favorites (chosen by a summer-long tabulation of individual "performance points" and popularity votes cast by fans, as part-of the war's most elaborate bond-raising scheme...
...Rickey had come to Brooklyn to win ball games. He could not let the ruckus at the rear confuse the front line. Dodger veterans that were haloed for Brooklynites were just too old for Rickey. Of the National League's 24 ten-year men, Brooklyn owned eight (St. Louis: none). Good major-league clubs had a 26-year average; Brooklyn averaged 32. So the captains and the kings departed. Rickey had little left, but at least what remained was no longer "dangerous."* He had broken ground for a typical Rickey machine. Ingredients: youth, sweat, audacity...