Word: dodgerism
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...Crimson did some mighty pounding at the plate but a sloppy Brooklyn-Dodger finale left all their efforts for naught. Phelan pitched respectable ball until the sixth and then gave up no more than four hits. Irv Rudman was called in to collect the last...
Right out of the artless Dodger tradition is the resolve of the movie baseball team's matronly owner (Sara Allgood) to bring Butterfingers back to manage her perennial losers. One of Butterfingers' previous boggles had lost the team a pennant, earned him a seven-year banishment from Brooklyn...
...Brooklyn Dodgers got the razzberry last week. Reason: they were six full games ahead of their nearest rival in the National League. Spokesman for the hecklers was mustachioed Dan Parker, New York Daily Mirror sports columnist, Dodger fan and leading U.S. exponent of Brooklynese. Wrote...
While the draft boards pondered ways of tightening up on deferred "borderline cases," many an artful dodger was busy. The FBI was investigating a nationwide deferment mill that promised 1-A-men that it would shove them into Government jobs before the Army nabbed them. In Lafayette, Ind. a 25-year-old named Chester Cleon Hill looked like the dodger-of-the-year. A grand jury indicted him for taking so many benzedrine sulfate tablets before his Army physical examination that he trembled his way into deferment...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War I draft dodger, as the U.S. entered World War II lost his appeal for a parole from Army prison at Fort Leavenworth, where he has served a little more than a year of a seven-and-a-half-year term...