Word: dodgerism
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...Gabby Hartnett, Detroit's Mickey Cochrane, and an earlier Redleg, Ernie Lombardi, whose style and skills closely parallel Bench's own. It may well be that Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays in the old Negro League was better than any of them. Then add the Brooklyn Dodger Blockbuster Roy Campanella (TIME Cover, Aug. 8, 1955) and the Yankees' impish Yogi Berra and the list of supercatchers is completed. As for the mental-retardation image, four of the modern seven-Dickey, Hartnett, Cochrane and Berra-became big league managers. There are tragic reasons why the others...
...neighborhood draft dodger triumphantly has returned home from Sweden to take one of the newly created jobs at Freedom Fleet, Unltd., a bus company shuttling ghetto children to racially balanced schools in the suburbs. After work, the ex-expatriate picks up his date at the friendly corner abortion parlor, stops next door at Pot City for some A capulco gold, and then trips off to Timothy Leary's Dizzy-land, a new chain of rock-'n'-roll-your-own nightclubs springing up in abandoned American Legion halls...
Rosebud is a condescending attempt to portray the social problems of the contemporary Indian. Danny (Kristoffer Tabori), a draft dodger from San Francisco in flight from the Feds, winds up in Rosebud, S. Dak., in the middle of the Sioux reservation. He decides to stick around and groove on the Indians. The Indians don't much like...
Died. Zachariah ("Zack") Davis Wheat, 83, Brooklyn Dodger hero for nearly two decades; of a heart attack; in Sedalia, Mo. From his first season as a Dodger in 1909, Wheat's trademarks were a distinctive shimmy in the batter's box and a screaming line drive that earned him the 1918 National League batting title, a lifetime average of .317, and election to baseball's Hall of Fame. Once characterized as "165 Ibs. of scrap iron, rawhide and guts," Wheat set team records for total hits (2,804), games played (2,318) and times...
Outclassing them all was Jackie Robinson. Much of what Kahn says about the Dodger infielder will be familiar to former members of Happy Felton's Knothole Gang. There is Robinson, first Negro in the majors: the racial abuse he endured on and off the field, his testiness, the later tragedy of his son's delinquency and fatal car crash. What Kahn does is rekindle for a younger, less patient generation the pride of a remarkable athlete who wanted to be recognized and paid as such. That Robinson eventually be came a prosperous, overweight Republican has a perfect...