Word: dodgerism
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Last week, this collection of oldtimers and newcomers had already won eleven consecutive games-a better spring showing than any other big-league team. But in their home park their winning streak ended. They lost all three games to the Yankees: 7-6, 3-2, 3-0. Undaunted, Dodger fans were convinced that they will turn the tables next October, when (as & if) the Dodgers meet the Yankees in the World Series...
...underfed rhinoceroses lie about "like huge unpacked leather bags," the whole voyage disintegrates into weak comic strip. At length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment. He is "the essential treacherous cunning in man, the 'save a bit out of it' soul, the dodger of obligations, the profiteering partner, the undying Ananias, the sweater of opportunity, the area sneak, the bounder on the make, the official who is in with powerful friends, the player who never plays the game but studies the rules to claim an advantage. ..." Space is left for the reader...
Since last October the Brooklyn Dodgers have spent close to half a million dollars for players. They gave the American Association's Louisville Colonels $75,000 for Infielder Peewee Reese. They gave the St. Louis Cardinals $200,000 for Outfielder Ducky Medwick. Last week, while Rookie Reese was on the side lines with a broken heel bone and Slugger Medwick was hitting like a bush leaguer, Brooklyn fans crammed Ebbets Field to salute the player they consider the most valuable Dodger of the year: Pitcher Freddy Fitzsimmons, a Giant castoff picked up for a song three years...
Freddy Fitzsimmons is fat and one year short of 40. Yet in this, his 16th year of big-league baseball, he has pitched the Dodgers to twelve victories (and only two defeats), the best 1940 pitching average in the National League. Because he recently joined the select circle of pitchers who have won 200 games, Dodger rooters last week presented Hero Fitzsimmons with a $1,700 sedan (bought with a barrelful of nickels and dimes), enough luggage for a round-the-world cruise, a radio, shotgun, suit of clothes and a watch whose dial spells F.Fitzsimmons. Only other active major...
...Medwick is one of the hardest-hitting outfielders in baseball. During eight seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, he averaged .338 at bat, drove in 873 runs and scored 771 runs himself (including 145 homers). Last year, when Leo ("Lippy") Durocher left the Cardinals to become manager of the Dodgers, he yearned to take along Ducky, his longtime roommate and protege. Dodger President Larry MacPhail, a red-headed go-getter, wanted Medwick...