Word: dodgerism
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There seemed slight likelihood of a smash political success. The speech was scheduled for Monday, a stay-at-home night most everywhere. The scene was to be Dodger Stadium (more popularly known as Chavez Ravine) - yet every properly baseball-batty Angeleno should have been glued to a television set watching the opening game of the showdown series between the Dodgers and the Cardinals in St. Louis. Thus, organizers of the Barry Goldwater rally had been having Technicolor night mares of rows of pink, aqua and maize stadium seats - all empty...
...Another Game." All was in readiness last week when the Bums rolled into St. Louis for a last three-game series with the onrushing Cardinals. Two weeks before, the Dodgers were coasting six games ahead of the pack. But then the Cards won 19 out of 20, and the Dodger lead dissolved to one slim game. For the first time in years, lines of fans stood all day outside Busch Stadium waiting for the ticket gates to open. "We're ready," promised Cardinal Manager Johnny Keane. As for Alston, he would only grunt: "Another game, another series...
...favorite lunching pad, the wily bird careens like a missile with a faulty guidance system. Like a climbing pheasant or a gliding goose, a dove is best downed by leading it, then firing at the spot where bird and shot should collide. But the dove is an artful dodger, apt to tumble or leap in the air just as the gun is fired. After many a fruitless hour, some hunters begin firing vaguely in the neighborhood of the doves, hoping for a stray hit. Whole boxes of shells can be fired without ruffling a feather...
...looks like a Dodger year. But fans have a recurrent nightmare of the old New York Giants' Bobby Thomson homering away Brooklyn's hopes in the 1951 playoff, and the memory of last year's pitching collapse and the Dodgers' virtual abdication of the crown to the Giants is still fresh...
...while it looked like $20,000 too much. His control was atrocious. But because he was a bonus baby, baseball rules prohibited the Dodgers from farming him out for seasoning. So for six years he warmed the bench, pitching only occasionally, compiling a record of 36 wins and 40 losses. Finally, one night in 1960 before a Dodger-Giant game, he buttonholed General Manager Buzzie Bavasi. "I want to pitch," stormed Sandy, "and you guys aren't giving me a chance." Inquired Bavasi: "How can you pitch when you can't get the side out?" Yelled Koufax...