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The Brooklyn Dodgers had never won a World Series. For the exasperated fans of the 15 other teams in the majors, it was hard to remember when the New York Yankees had lost one. In that sense, the two clubs seemed made for each other last week as they moved...
After they had begun hammering away, the impression still held good, but a delicate question had been added: Exactly who was made for whom? The Series itself was a fan's dream, a succession of cliffhanging, hand-wringing games full of melodramatic feats of hitting, fielding and pitching. It...
But the most astonishing thing of all was that the oft-frustrated Dodgers were setting the pace. Starting as 9-to-5 underdogs, they clawed right into the Yanks. After that, from game to game, Brooklyn forced the fighting. Win or lose, Brooklyn's Bums made the aristocratic American...
Statistically, the Dodgers looked less formidable this year than last. Campanella, Hodges, Furillo, Reese and Cox all finished with lower batting averages than in 1951. Home-run production dropped from 184 to 153, and ace Pitcher Don Newcombe was drafted. But the Dodgers had an exceedingly valuable newcomer: Relief Pitcher...
On the eve of this week's World Series opener, gamblers and sportwriters weighed the Dodgers' edge in power against the Yankees' edge in pitching, decided that it was the Yankees, about 8-5.