Word: dodgerism
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...last week there was Weltschmerz in Flatbush, Canarsie, Brownsville and Greenpoint. Brooklynites didn't like the looks of Howard Pollet, a 20-year-old southpaw the Cardinals had just brought up from their Houston farm. Dodger fans had seen enough of one left-handed Cardinal rookie, Ernie White, who had moidered their Bums in the first game of last week's series-to chalk up his 16th victory for St. Louis. The Pollet kid looked even better. In his major-league debut fortnight ago, he pitched a four-hit victory over the Boston Braves. Against the Dodgers last...
...American ear, organized cheering sounds right at football games, wrong at baseball games. Nevertheless, this week will see the first organized cheering section in a major-league ball park: at a Dodger-Giant game at Ebbets Field, 6,000 members of Brooklyn's Knothole Gang (schoolboy fans) will whoop it up for the dear old Dodgers. Cheerleaders: the "Reg'lar Fellers" kids (Puddin'head, Wash Jones, Jimmy Dugan and his dopey cousin Dinky), comic-strip radio characters...
Lippy's Boys. There is something about the Cardinals that makes the Dodgers see red. Perhaps it is the fact that several dwindling Dodger stars (including Manager Lippy Durocher) are former members of the St. Louis chain gang, sold down the river. Perhaps it irks them to see up-&-coming ballplayers, fresh from the Cardinal farms, doing as good a job as they did in their prime. At any rate, the Dodgers behaved like embarrassed has-beens. The Cards moidered them in two straight games in their own ball park...
That started a Dodger slump: they lost seven of their next ten games. Whitlow Wyatt, their best pitcher (when he strolls to the mound, some Dodger fan usually screams: "T'row it down d'eir t'roats, Whitelaw!"), lost three games in a row. Rookie Pete Reiser, who was leading the league in hitting, suddenly found it hard to connect. While Lippy's boys were losing nine out of twelve games, the Cardinals won nine out of twelve. Last week, St. Louis was on top by two full games. It looked like a dogfight...
...Brooklyn Dodger fans, believing reports from spring training, are all set for their first pennant in 21 years. So, when Boss Larry MacPhail's fabulous collection of stars was beaten by the New York Giants, 6-to-4, in the opening game, impatient Brooklynites hastily dubbed them Larry MacPhailures...