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101. The Brooklyn Dodgers will take the field in 1954 without former Manager Charley Dressen who: 1. Would not accept a one-year contract.
4. Decided that two lost World Series meant he had jinxed the Dodgers.
¶ Sport attendance figures for 1953, released last week, showed a drop of 1.7% for major-league baseball, with all eight clubs in the American League down from last year and only three of the eight in the National League (Dodgers, Phillies and the transplanted Braves) doing better. Football, for...
Back in late September, flushed with the achievement of leading the Dodgers to their second National League pennant in a row, Charley Dressen had sat him down to compose a letter to O'Malley & Co. In forceful phrases, the letter pointed out that the managers of several also-rans...
It was inconceivable to Charley, too. At week's end he agreed to manage the seventh-place Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League next year, the same team he led to a pennant in 1950. The Dodgers seemed in no hurry to replace him. "I might say the...